The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private A J T Harris

Inscription - "HIS END WAS PEACE"

Photograph by "MBeavan"

Private Alick (Alex/Alec) James Tyler HARRIS, 19870, Depot, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, previously 21st Lancers, (Empress of India's), 5700, died, 30th January 1919, age 22.

Born St Peters Parish, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, son of William Thomas & Susanna Harris, of "Bengeworth," (53?) Sun Street, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.

10th December 1896, St Peters, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, baptism of Alick James Tyler Harris, son of William Thomas, (wheelwright), & Susanna Harris, of 55, Sun Street, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.

1911 Census - 55, Sun Street, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire - William Thomas Harris, head, age 62, married 39 years, 13 children, 11 still alive, wheelwright, own account, at home, born Broadway, Gloucestershire; William George Harris, son, age 38, single, wheelwright, employee, at home, born Tewksbury, Gloucestershire; Margaret Hannah Harris, daughter, age 24, single, born Cheltenham, Gloucestershire; George Tyler Harris, son, age 20, single, railway porter, born Cheltenham, Gloucestershire; Alick James Tyler Harris, son, age 14, born Cheltenham, Gloucestershire; Walter Upstone, visitor, age 25, single, railway porter, born Kinsham, Gloucestershire.

Enlisted Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, age 18 years & 9 months, height 5ft 8¾ inches, weight 136lbs, fresh complexion, grey eyes, light hair, scar left wrist, left varicoele. Formerly clerk.

Home 14th August 1914 to 14th June 1916; BEF 15th June 1916 to 5th February 1918; Home 6th February 1918 to27th March 1918.

11th August 1914, enlisted & posted 12th Lancers, Service No.5700; 6th June 1916, transferred to 21st Lancers; 14th June 1916, disembarked; 15th June 1916, posted BEF & No.1. Service Squadron, 21st Lancers; 14th September 1917, Rouen, transferred to Royal West Kent Regiment; 14th September 1917, posted 10th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 14th November 1917, proceeded to Italy; 3rd January 1918, Italy, 39 Casualty Clearing Station, pleurisy; 8th January 1918, Italy, 30th Stationary Hospital, pleurisy; 6th February 1918, Marseilles, transferred to England ex 57 General Hospital, tuberculosis; 6th February 1918, posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 27th March 1918, discharged, not longer fit for War Service due to sickness. Awarded Silver War Badge.

28th March 1918, pension of 27/6 a week for 28 weeks to 15th October 1918. Disablement 100% & permanent, tubercle of the lungs; 22nd August 1918, pension of 27/6 a week awarded for 26 weeks to 15th April 1919.

Buried at Cheltenham Cemetery, W. 11743., United Kingdom.

NOTE: Not included in Regimental History or Soldiers Died in the Great War, but included on CWGC web site.

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