The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private W M Bryan

Private William Morrigan BRYAN, S/8941, 1st Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, France and Flanders, 4th March 1915.

Born Forest Hill, SE, son of Frederick & Bridget Bryan, 1 Whytlaures? Cottages, Speedwell Street, Deptford / 29 Albury Street, Deptford, SE.

Enlisted Woolwich, Kent, age 17 years 10 months, height 5ft 6 inches, weight 120lbs, brown eyes, brown hair, scar inner side left leg, scar left buttock. Formerly woodyard labourer.

Home 13th January 1914 to 6th December 1914; BEF 7th December 1914 to 4th March 1915.

13th January 1914, enlisted Royal West Kent Regiment, Special Reserve; 16th March 1914 to 30th March 1914, Hospital, bronchial catarrh; 4th April 1914, awarded 3rd Class Certificate of Education; 5th August 1914, mobilized; 12th September 1914, absent from 4.30pm until 1.30am on 16th, deprived 10 days pay; 27th October 1914 to 5th November 1914, absent, awarded 10 days Field Punishment No.2. & forfeits 3 days pay; 7th December 1914, posted 1st Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment.

1st July 1919, Statement of Relatives - Father, Frederick Bryan, 29 Albury Street, Deptford, SE8.; Mother, deceased January 1917.

Buried at Tuileries British Cemetery, Special Memorial, C5., Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

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