The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private V J Wraight

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Private Victor Joseph WRAIGHT, G/18547, 6th Battalion,  Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders France, 9th August 1918.

Born Herne Hill, Kent, son of Joseph & Emma Jane Wraight.

1911 Census - The Forstal, Hernhill, nr Faversham, Kent - Joseph Wraight, head, age 69, married, farm labourer, worker, born Hernhill, Kent; Emma Jane Wraight, wife, age 64, married 47 yeaers, 14 children, 9 still alive, born Hernhill, Kent; Arthur Wraight, son, age 45, single, farm labourer, worker, born Hernhill, Kent; Victor Joseph Wraight, son, age 27, single, groom, domestic, worker, born Hernhill, Kent; Alec Leslie Wraight, a son, age 22, single, general labourer, worker, born Hernhill, Kent.

8th July 1911, Faversham, Kent married Bessie Rebecca Emma Drury, St Michaels Cottages, Herne Hill nr Faversham, Kent / Tile Kiln Cottages, Dunkirk, Faversham, Kent.

Children - Wilfred Leslie Wraight, born 10th August 1911; Lilian May Wraight, born 6th December 1914; Doreen Wraight, born 7th January 1916.

Home, 27th April 1915 to 20th September 1916; BEF, 21st September 1916 to 30th April 1917; Home, 1st May 1917 to 17th December 1917; BEF, 18th December 1917 to 9th August 1918.

Enlisted Herne Hill, Kent, age 29 years 6 months / 30, height 5ft 3¼ inches, weight 149lbs, nevis above right nipple, teeth defective. Formerly groom. 

27th April 1915, enlisted & posted 3/1 Royal East Kent Mounted Rifles, Service No.2465; 2nd June 1915, posted 2/1 Royal East Kent Mounted Rifles; 21st September 1916, embarked; 21st September 1916, Etaples. 30 Infantry Base Depot; 11th October 1916, transferred to 4th (Territorial Force) Reserve, Royal West Kent Regiment; 11th October 1916, posted to 11th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 1st May 1917, Boulogne, transferred to England Hospital Ship St Denis from 3 Canadian General Hospital; 1st May 1917, posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 1st May 1917 to 4th August 1917, King Georges Hospital, Stamford Street, London, SE, ICT left knee and ankle; 4th August 1917 to 3rd November 1917, Holborn Military Hospital, Western Road, Mitcham, Surrey, ICT left knee and ankle; 4th November to 13th November 1917, furlough granted by Holborn Military Hospital; 14th November 1917, posted 3rd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 18th December 1917, France Infantry Base Depot; 19th December 1917, embarked / disembarked; 19th December 1917, posted 7th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 25th December 1917, posted 6th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 26th December 1917, joined Battalion, "A" Company In the Field..

2nd March 1919, date when Separation Allowance of 28/- a week payable to widow, wiil cease.

3rd March 1919, pension of 29/7 a week awarded to widow and three children.

13th July 1920, Statement of Relatives - Widow, Bessie Rebecca Emma Wraight, Tile Kiln Cottages, Dunkirk, Faversham, Kent; Children - Wilfred Leslie Wraight, 10th August 1911, Tile Kiln Cottages, Dunkirk, Faversham, Kent; Lilian May Wraight, 6th December 1914, Tile Kiln Cottages, Dunkirk, Faversham, Kent; Doreen Wraight, 7th January 1916, Tile Kiln Cottages, Dunkirk, Faversham, Kent.

1921 March Faversham Registration District, Bessie Rebecca Emma Wraight married George Smith.

Buried at Ville-sur-Ancre Communal Cemetery Extension, B. 2., Somme, France. Commemorated Hernehill War Memorial.