The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Pte A T Potter

Private Alfred Thomas POTTER, 26085, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment.

Enlisted 11th February 1916, Dartford, Kent, age 23, height 5ft 11½ inches, resided 7 Brunswick Road, Gravesend, Kent / Albert Villa, Meopham Green, nr Gravesend, Kent. Formerly foreman munitions.

Son of Thomas Potter, 50 Augustine Road, Gravesend, Kent.

Husband of Rosina May Potter, (nee Lock, spinster), married 5th August 1916, Chalk.

Home, 11th February 1916 to 17th June 1917; BEF, 18th June 1917 to 31st July 1917; Home, 1st August 1917 to 11th April 1918.

11th February 1916, enlisted; 12th February 1916, to Army Reserve; 28th March 1917, mobilized; 31st March 1917, posted 3rd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 18th June 1917, posted BEF & 1st Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 4th July 1917, posted 11th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 21st July 1917, not complying with an order, 21 days Field Punishment No.2.; 1st August 1917, posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment;

31st January 1918, letter from Ministry of Pensions, to OIC Records, Hounslow - I am directed by the Special Grants Committee to inform you that no further issue of Separation Allowance will be made to Rosina Potter of Gravesend and the wife of No 26085 Pte A T Potter, 3rd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment on account of conviction for neglect of children. The tow children are stated to be in the Gravesend & Milton Union.

5th February 1918, letter from OIC Records, Hounslow to OC Wharncliffe War Hospital, Middlewood Road, Sheffield - The attached copy letter from Ministry of Pensions is passed to you with the request that you will kindly intimate the contents to No 26085 Pte A T Potter, Royal West Kent Regiment, a patient in your hospital.

2nd March 1918, posted 3rd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment.

11th April 1918, discharged as "no longer physically fit for War Service" due to wounds Silver War Badge issued.

Pension 27/6 a week for 4 weeks, then 16/6 a week for 22 weeks, then 11/- for 26 weeks. Disability, gun shot wound right foot & leg also left foot.

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