The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Pte G E Dowell

Private George Ernest DOWELL, 9012, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment.

Enlisted 15th July 1915, Hastings, Sussex, age 38, height 5ft 5 inches, resided 29 Beaconsfield Road, Bexhill, Sussex / 64 Martins Road, Shortlands, Kent / 56 Heathfield Road, Bromley, Kent. Formerly gardener.

Husband of Lucy Eliza Alice Dowell, (nee Russell), Heathfield Stores, Heathfield Road, Bromley, Kent. Married 15th August 1901, St John Evangelist Church, Bromley, Kent.

Home, 15th July 1915 to 13th December 1915; BEF, 14th December 1915 to 20th March 1916; Home, 21st March 1916 to 14th November 1916.

15th July 1915, enlisted and posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 24th July 1915, posted 3rd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 14th December 1915, posted 6th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment & BEF; 10th March 1916, wounded, fractured skull; 21st March 1916, posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 24th October 1916, Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley.

14th November 1916, discharged as "no longer physically fit for War Service" due to wounds. Silver War Badge issued

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