The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Pte F Angel

Private Frederick ANGEL, 703,, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment.

Born Catford, Kent, enlisted 9th September 1914, Lewisham, age 38, height 5ft 3 inches, weight 119lbs. Formerly bricklayers labourer.

Previously served with Royal West Kent Regiment 1st |& 2nd TE.

Husband of Eliza Angel, (nee Ellis), 4 Brookdale Road, Catford, Kent. Married 2nd July 1904, Register Office, Lewisham.

Children - Frederick Henry Angel, born 29th January 1905, Lewisham; Eliza Elizabeth Angel, born 18th June 1907, Greenwich; Arthur Angel, born 10th January 1910, Lewisham; Lucy Emma Angel, born 2nd July 1911, Lewisham; Susannah Elizabeth Angel, born 17th February 1914, Lewisham.

Home, 9th September 1914 to 29th August 1915; BEF, 30th August 1915 to 1st May 1917; Home, 2nd May 1917 to 17th June 1917.

9th September 1914, enlisted & posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 12th September 1914, posted 8th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 12th February 1915, posted 3rd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 15th March 1915, posted 8th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 1st August 1915, Blackdown, quitting Barracks without permission and remaining absent until Reveille 4th, deprived 4 days pay, 8 days confined to Barracks, forfeits 4 days pay; 2nd May 1917, posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 2nd May 1917,admitted to Metropolitan Hospital, DAH; 17th June 1917, transferred to Army Reserve Class "P".

17th June 1917 discharged as "no longer physically fit for War Service" due to sickness. Silver War Badge issued

Pension 8/3 a week for 26 weeks conditional.

Final discharge, 22nd June 1918.

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