The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Pte W Hunwick

Private James William HUNWICK, 877, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment.

Born Greenwich, Kent, enlisted 31st August 1914, Deptford, SE, age 30, height 5ft 6½ inches, weight 156lbs. Formerly gasworks labourer.

Husband of Elizabeth Vaughan, (nee Caroline Elizabeth Thorogood, spinster), 22 Roan Street, Greenwich, SE. Married 15th April 1906, Christ Church, Greenwich, SE.

Children - James William Hunwick, born 14th May 1907, Greenwich; Lily Elizabeth Hunwick, born 17th September 1909, Greenwich; Alfred George Hunwick, born 15th May 1915, Greenwich, deceased 10th August 1915; John Robert Hunwick, born 21st April 1911, Greenwich; Robert Hunwick, born 3rd April 1913, Greenwich.

Home, 31st August 1914 to 31st May 1915; BEF, 1st June 1915 to 8th October 1915; Home, 9th October 1915 to 31st August 1916.

31st August 1914, enlisted & posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 4th September 1914, posted 6th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 6th October 1915, wounded, gun shot wound head, fractured skull, 1 Casualty Clearing Station; 9th October 1915, 8 Stationary Hospital, Wimereux, to England; 9th October 1915, posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 26th January 1916, posted 3rd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 15th March 1916, posted Eastern Command Depot.

31st August 1916, discharged as "no longer physically fit for War Service" due to wounds. Silver War Badge issued

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