The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment
Private G W Terry
Photograph by "P Dagwell"
Private George William TERRY, 18523, 11th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, died, 20th August 1919, age 23.
1896 born Blean, Kent, son of George & Martha Jane Terry, of 14, Military Road, Canterbury, Kent.
1911 Census - 14, Military Road, Canterbury, Kent - George Terry, head, age 39, married, bricklayer, City Council, worker, born Canterbury, Kent; Jane Terry, wife, age 35, married 15 years, 8 children, all still alive, Little Bourne, Kent; George Terry, son, age 14, butchers assistant, worker, born Canterbury, Kent; Annie Terry, daughter, age 12, school, born Canterbury, Kent; Jennie Terry, daughter, age 10, school, born Canterbury, Kent; May Terry, daughter, age 9, school, born Canterbury, Kent; Walter Terry, son, age 7, school, born Canterbury, Kent; Fredrick Terry, son, age 5, school, born Canterbury, Kent; Albert Terry, son, age 4, school, born Canterbury, Kent; Alfred Terry, son, age 1, born Canterbury, Kent.
Home 24th May 1915 to 20th September 1916; BEF 21st September 1916 to 10th March 1917; Home 11th March 1917 to 26th July 1917.
24th May 1915, Canterbury, enlisted, age 19 years & 49 days, height 5ft 9 inches, weight 133lbs; 24th May 1915, posted East Kent Mounted Rifles, Service No.2745; 24th May 1915, posted 3/1 Battalion, East Kent Mounted Rifles; 10th July 1915, 2/1 Battalion, posted East Kent Mounted Rifles; 21st September 1916, posted BEF; 21st September 1916, Infantry Base Depot; 11th October 1916, transferred to 4th Reserve Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 11th October 1916,posted 11th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 11th March 1917, posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment;
11th March 1917 to 3rd April 1918, Norfolk War Hospital, Thorpe, Norfolk - gun shot wound back, fractured spine, paraplegia, small wound to lumber region, fractured 1st lumbar vertebrea, bullet present in spine; 5th July 1917, Medical Board found permanently unfit;
26th July 1917 discharged as ""no longer physically fit for War Service" due to wounds, (gun shot wound back, fractured spine) Silver War Badge issued. Discharge address, 14, Military Road, Canterbury, Kent. Pension 27/6 a week, to be reviewed in 26 weeks.
26th July 1917, War Badge & Certificate received by father & sent to Norwich Hospital.
6th February 1918, Norfolk War Hospital, Thorpe, Norfolk, slight improvement; 19th January 1919 to Tankerton Hospital, Whitstall, little blood in urine at times;
4th April 1918 to 13th June 1919, Tankerton Hospital, Whitstable, Kent, transferred to Special Surgical Hospital, Chart Lane Tooting, no change in patients condition.
6th January 1921, Kings Certificate on his discharge received by mother of deceased soldier.
28th September 1921, British War & Victory Medal, received by mother of deceased soldier.
Buried at Canterbury Cemetery, B. 590., Canterbury, Kent.
NOTE: Not included in Regimental History or Soldiers Died in the Great War; shown on CWGC web site.
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