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Private George SHELLEY, 10614, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, died of influenza, pneumonia, pleurisy at 12.15pm, 29th March 1920, Military Hospital, Maidstone, Kent, age 22.

24th October 1896, born Sheerness Kent, son of George & Elizabeth Shelley.

1911 Census - 49 Rose Street, Sheerness, Kent - Elizabeth Shelley, head, age 57, married 16 years, 1 child, still alive, born Sittingbourne, Kent; George Shelley, son, age 14, school, born Sheerness, Kent; Edith Dollimore, boarder, age 25, married 1 years, born Maidstone, Kent.

Enlisted Sheerness Kent, age 18 years & 3 months, height 5ft 5¼ inches, weight 117lbs, fresh complexion, grey eyes, brown hair, mole right side of front of chest, mole left side of neck. Formerly boiler cleaner.

Home 23rd December 1914 to 30th August 1915; BEF 31st August 1915 to 23rd July 1916; Home 24th July 1916 to 30th May 1917; BEF 31st May 1917 to 9th January 1919; Home 10th January 1919 to 29th March 1920.

23rd December 1914, enlisted & posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 30th December 1914, posted 3rd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 31st August 1915, posted BEF & 1st Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 24th July 1916, posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 26th July 1916 to 27th November 1916, Tortell Pak Avenue, attached 1st Western General Hospital, Liverpool, shrapnel wound, left shoulder; 26th July 1916, operation, metal removed; 9th August 1916, clean & healing; 23rd November 1916, fit for light duty; 29th December 1916, Eastern Command Depot, Shoreham by Sea; 17th March 1917, posted 3rd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 31st March 1917, posted 3/4th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 31sy May 1917, posted BEF; 31st May 1917, Southampton, embarked; 1st June 1917, Havre, disembarked; 7th October 1917, 52 Field Ambulance, scabies; 18th October 1917, rejoined Unit In the Field; 17th January 1918 to 1st February 1918, granted leave to UK; 10th February 1918, posted 7th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 21st February 1918 to 3rd March 1918, posted missing; Prisoner of War, Soltan;

10th May 1918, letter from Mrs A Susans?, (next of kin),27 Ruskin Road, Ipswich, Suffolk - "Can you kindly give me any information please as to the whereabouts of the above names (my stepbrother), several letters have been sent to him, but no reply has been .......... the last time heard from him was about the beginning of March he was then serving with C Company 3/4th  RWK B.E.F. France. Thanking you in anticipation."

10th January 1919, repatriated & arrived in London & admitted Connaught Hospital; 10th January 1919, posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 11th March 1919, posted 3rd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 21st March 1919, posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 21st March 1919 to 18th April 1919, Furlough, advance of £2 given, address for pay 27 Ruskin Road, Ipswich, Suffolk; 28th December 1919, Maidstone, absent from Tattoo until 19.30 hours, 29th December 1919, admonished, forfeits 1 days pay; 11th March 1920 to 29th March 1920, Military Hospital, Maidstone, admitted with influenza on 11th March, developed pneumonia 13th March, severe attack 29th March & died in less than half an hour.

5th April 1919, Weybread Parish Church, Suffolk, George Shelley married Harriett Smith, 1, Barrow Hill, Acton, Sudbury, Suffolk.

16th October 1919, date when Separation Allowance of 23/- a week & Allotment of Pay of 14/- a week, payable to wife will cease.

1920 March, Hartismere, Suffolk Registration District, Winifred V I Shelley, daughter of George & Harriett Shelley.

3rd April 1920, buried at Westerfield, St Mary Magdalene Churchyard, South East of Church, Suffolk.

18th October 1920, 1st award of 26/8 a week to widow Harriett Shelley, Upper Weybread, near Harleston, Suffolk, 10/- a week for children

1920 December, Hartismere, Suffolk Registration District, Hettie Shelley married George Bird

NOTE: Not included in Regimental History or Soldiers Died in the Great War; only shown on CWGC web site.