The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private S J Brown

Inscription - "PEACE PERFECT PEACE"

Photograph by "Michele Bergin"

Private Sydney John BROWN, TR10/38181, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, died, 16th January 1918, age 20.

Son of Sydney and Susan Brown, of Sittingbourne, Kent.

1901 Census - 60 East Street, Sittingbourne, Kent - Sydney Brown, head, married, age 35, sailmaker, worker, born, Milton, Sittingbourne, Kent; Susan J Brown, wife, married, age 33, born Sittingbourne, Kent; Ellen J Brown, daughter, single, age 9, born Milton, Sittingbourne, Kent; Edith E Brown, daughter, single, age 7, born, Milton, Sittingbourne, Kent; Amelia Brown, daughter, single, age 6, born Sittingbourne, Kent; Sydney J Brown, son, single, age 4, born Sittingbourne, Kent; George H Brown, son, single, age 2, born Sittingbourne, Kent; Edward R? Brown, son, single, age 5 months, born Sittingbourne, Kent.

1911 Census - 60 East Street, Sittingbourne, Kent - Sydney Brown, head, married, age 45, journeyman sailmaker, worker employed born Milton Regis, Kent; Susan Brown, wife, married 20 years, 8 children, 7 still alive, age 44, born Sittingbourne, Kent; Sydney Brown, son, age 13½, single, school, born Sittingbourne, Kent; George Brown, son, age 11½, single, school, born Sittingbourne, Kent; Edward Brown, son, age 10½, single, school, born Sittingbourne, Kent; Harold Brown, son, age 7, single, school, born Sittingbourne, Kent.

Home 14th June 1915 to 6th June 1917; BEF 7th June 1917 to 4th July 1917; Home 5th July 1917 to 29th August 1917.

14th June 1915, enlisted, Sittingbourne, Kent, age 19 years & 7 months, height 5ft 4¼ inches, weight 115lbs, resided 60 East Street, Sittingbourne, Kent, formerly shipwright labourer; 14th June 1915, posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment, Service No.G/8254; 14th June 1915, posted 10th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 1st March 1916, posted 12th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 1st September 1916, transferred to 23rd Brigade, 99th Training Reserve Battalion, TR./10/38181; 7th April 1917, transferred to 98th Training Reserve Battalion, TR./10/40225; 7th June 1917, posted BEF; 4th July 1917, to England Hospital Ship "Brighton", tuberculosis of lung; 5th July 1917, transferred to 98th Training Reserve Battalion; 8th August 1917, 2/1st Southern General Hospital, Dudley Road, Birmingham, going to a Sanatorium; 29th August 1917, discharged to Brompton Hospital, London, being no longer physically fit for war service.

Awarded Silver War Badge

Pension awarded of 27/6 a week for 26 weeks to be reviewed, tubercle of the lungs.

Buried at Sittingbourne Cemetery, T.184, Sittingbourne, Kent.

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