The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Pte E W Plumb

Private Edward Walter PLUMB, 15146, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment.

Born Balsham, Cambridgeshire, enlisted 24th February 1916, Linton, Cambridgeshire, age 18, height 5ft 5inches, weight 130lbs, resided West Wratting, Cambridgeshire / Causeway Cottage, West Wratting, Cambridgeshire. Formerly coal porter.

Son of Frederick Plumb, Causeway Cottage, West Wratting, Cambridgeshire.

Home, 24th February 1916 to 12th September 1916; BEF, 13th September 1916 to 3rd November 1916; Home, 4th November 1916 to 21st June 1917.

24th February 1916, enlisted; 25th February 1916, transferred to Army Reserve; 11th May 1916, mobilized & posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 14th May 1916, posted 9th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 1st September 1916, posted 3rd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 13th September 1916, posted Infantry Base Depot, Etaples, France; 29th September 1916, posted 6th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 4th November 1916, posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 7th November 1916 to 2nd May 1917, Dublin Hospital, gun shot wound, left thigh, 1 x 4, fractured femur; 6th May 1917 to 21st June 1917, New End Section, Military Hospital, Hampstead, NW.

21st June 1917, discharged as "no longer physically fit for War Service" due to wounds Silver War Badge issued.

Pension, 22/- a week for 26 weeks conditional.

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