The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Pte A R Dadson

Private Alfred Robert DADSON, 23155, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment.

Called up 16th October 1916, age 35, height 56ft 6 inches, resided 20 Taunton Road, Swanscombe, Kent. Formerly stevedore.

Husband of Bertha Ethel Grace Dadson, (nee White), 20 Taunton Road, Swanscombe, Kent. Married 20th March 1905, Swanscombe Church.

Children - Alfred Robert Dadson, born 4th May 1905, 132 Church Road, Swanscombe, Kent; Ethel Bertha May Dadson, born 19th September 1906, 10 The Grove, Galley Hill, Swanscombe, Kent; Eliza Elizabeth Dadson, born 13th March 1908, 37 Castle Street, Swanscombe, Kent; Alice Rose Dadson, born 10th February 1910, 135 Church Road, Swanscombe, Kent; Grace Emma Dadson, born 22nd October 1913, Dartford, Kent; William John Dadson, born 4th? February 1917, Dartford, Kent.

Home, 16th October 1916 to 20th March 1917; BEF, 21st March 1917 to 10th July 1917; Home, 11th July 1917 to 18th October 1917.

16th October 1916, joined from Army Reserve Class "B"; 18th October 1916, posted 3rd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 21st March 1917, posted 6th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment & BEF; 11th July 1917, posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 27th September 1917, Medical Board approves discharge.

Gas poisoning.

18th October 1917, discharged as "no longer physically fit for War Service" due to wounds. Silver War Badge issued

Pension 27/6 a week for 35 weeks, to be reviewed. Disability chronic bronchitis.

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