The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Pte E A Pleasance

Private Ernest Alfonso PLEASANCE, 18273, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment.

Enlisted 15th February 1916, Belton, Norfolk, age 26, height 5ft 7¼ inches, resided Browston, Belton, Great Yarmouth, Suffolk / The Lodge Browston Hall, Great Yarmouth. Formerly market gardeners labourer.

Husband of Eva Mary Pleasance, (nee Last, spinster), married 4th December 1915, St Helens Parish Church, Ipswich, Suffolk.

Child - Evelyn Elsie Pleasance, born 4th December 1916, Belton.

Home, 15th February 1916 to 29th August 1916; BEF, 30th August 1916 to 1st November 1916; Home, 2nd November 1916 to 4th July 1917.

15th February 1916, enlisted; 16th February 1916, transferred to Army Reserve; 25th May 1916, mobilized; 26th May 1916, posted 27th (Reserve), Battalion, Royal Fusiliers, 2840; 30th August 1916, transferred to BEF; 13th September 1916, transferred to 11th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 2nd November 1916, posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 13th June 1917, Reading War Hospital.

4th July 1917, discharged as "no longer physically fit for War Service" due to wounds Silver War Badge issued.

Pension, 27/6 a week for 13 weeks, conditional.

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