The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private A T Waters

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Private Albert Thomas WATERS, T/1270, 5th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, died, 22nd January 1917, age 21.

January 1895, born  Woolwich, Kent, son of William & Jane Waters, of 30, Little Queen Street, Dartford, Kent.

1911 Census - 36, Little Queen Street, Dartford, Kent - William Waters, head, age 66, married, general labourer, born Wick Caithnesshire; Jane Waters, wife, age 54, married 25 years, 7 children, 4 still alive, born Greenwich; Albert T Waters, son, age 15, single, general labourer, born Woolwich; Joseph Allen, boarder, age 78, widower, general labourer, born Wilmington, Kent.

Enlisted, Dartford, Kent, age 17 years & 1 month, height 5ft 4½ inches. Formerly a chemical labourer. Resided 30, Little Queen Street, Dartford, Kent.

Home 24th February 1912 to 28th October 1914; India  28th October 1914 to 28th March 1915; Home 29th March 1915 to 18th May 1915.

24th February 1912, enlisted & posted 5th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 29th October 1914 posted India; 5th December 1914, Jhansi, disembarked; 13th January 1915 to to 1st March 1915, Hospital, hemoptysis; 15th February 1915, Jhansi, India, Medical Board declared no longer physically fit for War Service;  28th March 1915, posted England; 29th March 1915 to 19th April 1915, Netley Hospital, broncoplipeis?; 20th April 1915 to 30th April 1915, Netley Hospital, tubercle of the lung; 18th May 1915, Netley, discharged, height 5ft 8 inches, brown eyes, brown hair.

Buried at Dartford East Hill Cemetery, A. 1259., Dartford, Kent. Commemorated Dartford War Memorial.

NOTE: this soldier does not appear in the Regimental History Roll of Honour or in Soldiers Died in the Great War; but he is included on the CWGC web site.

MEDICAL HISTORY

Admitted to hospital 13th January - Discharged from hospital 1st March 1915. Disease - Hemoptysis

Cause of ****** doubtful but obviously from lung, there was a few suspicious sounds at R. apex but nothing definite.

T.B. not found in blood and no expectoration.

Admitted to hospital 29th March  - Discharged from hospital 19th April 1915. Disease - Hemoptysis 

1st April 1915 - Chest well covered, moves evenly on respirations. Percussion note unimpaired. Breath sounds at left apex bronchial in type. At the angle of left scapula there is a small area about the size of half a crown over which harsh breath sounds and some ?expectorations? can be elicited on coughing.

Temperature normal.

4th April 1915 - Pathologist reports presence of tubercle bacilli in sputum.

16th April 1915 - Weight 9 st.  13 lbs.

Admitted to hospital 20th April  - Discharged from hospital 30th April 1915. Disease - Tubercle of lung.