The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Pte C J Robinson

Private Charles James ROBINSON, 11174, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment.

Born, Blackfriars, London, Middlesex, enlisted 19th January 1916, Gravesend, Kent, age 22, height 5ft 5 inches, weight 140lbs, resided 18 Peabody Square, Blackfriars, London / 18 Harwood Road, Fulham, SW6. Formerly farm labourer.

At age 16 sent to Darenth Industrial Colony and was an inmate for 3 years. Note: This Training Colony was established as part of Darenth Asylum to teach "higher grade mental defectives industrial skills and crafts.

Son of Ada Robinson, 1 Peabody Square, Blackfriars, London.

Home, 19th January 1916 to 18th May 1916; BEF, 19th May 1916 to 28th June 1916; Home, 29th June 1916 to 13th April 1917.

19th January 1916, enlisted & posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 23rd January 1916, posted 3rd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 19th May 1916, posted 7th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 12th June 1916, proceed to join 7th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment, in the Field; 13th June 1916, joined Battalion; 18th June 1916, shell concussion, to 17 Field Ambulance / 45 Casualty Clearing Station; 23rd June 1916, admitted 12 General Hospital, Rouen; 28th June 1916, to England on Hospital Ship, Western Australia; 29th June 1916, posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 29th June 1916 to 26th February 1917, King Georges Hospital, London, shell shock, after shell explosion lost consciousness shortly and some slight amnesia afterwards. Still suffers mentally; 4th London General Hospital, 26th February 1917 to 10th April 1917,neurasthenia and shell shock;

12th March 1917, Medical Board, 4th London General Hospital, complains of head aches in the morning, he was blind in left eye before he joined the Army, since his concussion that had amaurosis of the right eye. It has been under constant hospital treatment since June 1916 and no further improvement is probably. Permanently unfit.

13th April 1917, discharged as "no longer physically fit for War Service" due to sickness Silver War Badge issued.

23rd March 1919, Special Medical Board, 78 Lancaster Gate, Hyde Park, W, award Final Gratuity of £25, in lieu of total disability pension for one month and partial disability pension for 6 months.

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