The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private C A Bleach

Private Charles Alfred BLEACH, G/19326, 11th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders, France, 31st July 1917.

Born Deptford, Kent.

27th February 1916, Parish Church, St Mary Magdalene, Bermondsey, marriage of Charles Alfred Bleach, age 28, bachelor, printer, 44 Croxby? Row, son of Frederick Bleach, dock labourer to Helena Spriggs, age 18, spinster, machine ????, 137 Bermondsey Street, daughter of Joseph John Spriggs, waterside labourer.

Child - Helena Bleach, born 10th May 1916, Bermondsey. 12th January 1918, Bermondsey Infirmary, Helena Bleach died age 20 months of bronchio-pneumonia. Informant Helena Bleach, mother, 7 Cardol Place, Southwark.

Enlisted Rotherhithe, Kent, age 23, height 5ft ½ inch, weight 97lbs. Resided 137 Bermondsey Street, SE / 7 Cardol Place, Long Lane, Borough, SE. Formerly carman.

Home 31st May 1916 to 11th Febriuary 1917; Home 12th March 1917 to 4th May 1917; BEF 5th May 1917 to 31st July 1917.

31st May 1916, enlisted, under standard; 31st May 1916, to Army Reserve; 8th June 1916, posted 29th Middlesex Regiment, Labour Section, Service No.30616, Home Service Labour only; 19th November 1916, absent 6 days; 9th December 1916, absent 6 days; 18th December 1916, awarded 7 days detention & deprived of 4 days pay for absence; 24th December 1916, from Detention, 1 day remitted for good conduct; 24th December 1916, declared a deserter from Detention; 8th February 1917 to 18th February 1917 to 5th March 1917 to 11th March 1917, awaiting trial; 12th March 1917, tried by DCM & sentenced to 6 months detention for deserting His Majesty's Forces, when in confinement escaping, breaking away from his escort & attempting to escape; 16th March 1917, sentenced confirmed G.O.C.; 20th March 1917, to Detention Barracks; All former Service forfeited on conviction of desertion, service now reckons from 12th March 1917; 30th March 1917, posted 5th Middlesex Regiment; 5th May 1917, posted BEF, 41 Infantry Base Depot, Etaples; 5th May 1917, posted 18th Middlesex Regiment; 22nd May 1917, 41st Infantry Base Depot, Etaples, transferred to Royal West Kent Regiment, posted to 11th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 14th June 1917, wounded; 28th June 1917, rejoined Battalion; 31st July 1917, killed in action & buried, (unknown grave) Voormezeele Enclosure, 2 miles South of Ypres.

18th May? 1918, pension of 13/9 a week awarded to widow.

Buried at Bedford House Cemetery, Enclosure No.4 VIII. B. 39., Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

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