The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Pte E J Pankhurst

Private Edward John PANKHURST, 4420, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment.

Enlisted 25th January 1915, Tonbridge, Kent, age 20, height 5ft 6 inches, resided 6 Speldhurst Road, Southborough, Tunbridge Wells, Kent / 6 Shaftesbury Road, St Johns, Tunbridge Wells, Kent / 60 Mount Pleasant, Tunbridge Wells, Kent. Formerly labourer.

Son of John Pankhurst, 6 Speldhurst Road, Southborough, Tunbridge Wells, Kent.

Home, 25th January 1915 to 28th June 1915; BEF, 29th June 1915 to 27th January 1916; Home, 28th January 1916 to 28th March 1916.

25th January 1915, enlisted & posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 29th June 1915, posted BEF & 6th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 28th January 1916, posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 18th February 1916 to 7th March 1916, Military Hospital, Hampstead, VDH, mitral incompetence, pain & shortness of breath.

28th March 1916, discharged as "no longer physically fit for War Service" due to sickness Silver War Badge issued.

Pension, 4/8 a week for 6 months, conditional.

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