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The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

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Private Sidney ADLEY, G/19391, 7th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, died, France, 21st October 1918.

Born Dover, Kent. Son of Frederick Adley, (address unknown) & Eliza Adley, Railway Inn, Hawkesbury Street, Dover Kent.

1911 Census - 17 Churchill Street, Charlton, Dover, Kent - Frederick Adley, head, married, age 48, woodworking machinist, born Dover, Kent; Eliza Adley, wife married 28 years, 4 children 3 still alive, age 45, born Dover, Kent; William Adley, son, single, age 27, ships fireman, RM Dungeness?, born Dover, Kent; Sidney Adley, son, single, age 22, butcher, born Dover, Kent; Violet Adley, daughter, age 14, born Dover, Kent; Annie Maria Green, boarder, age 73, widow, born Dover, Kent.

1st December 1916, enlisted Canterbury, Kent, age 28, height 5ft 3 inches, resided 39 Council House, Street, Dover, Kent, formerly steward.

Previously served on HMS Engadine for 1year and 7 days as a steward.

Home, 1st December 1916 to 8th May 1917, BEF, 9th May 1917 to 26th July 1917; Home, 27th July 1917 to 16th July 1918; BEF 18th July 1918 to 21st October 1918.

21st February 1917 to 3rd April 1917, Dover Military Hospital, bronchitis; 9th May 1917, embarked to France; 22nd July 1917, 9 General Hospital, Rouen, bronchitis; 26th July 1917, Hospital Ship to England; 27th July 1917 to 2nd August 1917, Military Hospital, Eastleigh, bronchitis; 3rd August 1917 to 8th September 1917, Lewisham Hospital, bronchitis; 8th September 1917, admitted to 3rd London General Hospital, Wandsworth, SW, furlough granted from 22nd September 1917 to 1st October 1917; 9th October 1917 to 17th December 1917, Eastern Command Depot, Shoreham by Sea, Sussex, bronchitis; 19th November 1917, passed fit by the Standing Medical Board, Eastern Command Depot, Shoreham by Sea, Sussex; 18th December 1917, posted 3rd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 1st January 1918 to 3rd January 1918, Chatham Military Hospital, syphilis, transferred to Cherry Hinton Military Hospital, Cambridge; 3rd January 1918 to 26th February 1918, Cherry Hinton Military Hospital, Cambridge, syphilis; 26th February 1918, discharged to Unit: 16th July 1918, posted BEF & 7th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 22nd July 1918, joined 7th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment, in the Field; 22nd August 1918, 56 Field Ambulance admitted with diarrhoea; 23rd August 1918, General Hospital, Rouen; 25th August 1918, 2 Convalescent Depot; 19th September 1918, Etaples Infantry Base; 8th October 1918, joined 7th Battalion, in the Field; 9th October 1918, 56 Field Ambulance admitted P.U.O. (pyrexia of unknown origin); 21st October 1918, Augeurs Hospital died of bronchial pneumonia.

Buried at Villers-Bretonneux Military Cemetery, XVIA.B.12., Somme, France.

4th October 1919, Statement of Relatives - Frederick Adley, father, address unknown; Eliza Adley, mother, Railway Inn, Pier, Dover, Kent; William Adley, brother, age 34, 36 Manor Road, Maxton, Dover, Kent; Violet Adley, sister, age 23, Railway Inn, Pier, Dover, Kent;

Link to Dover War Memorial Project

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