The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private H Bright

Inscription - "HE DIED INSTANTLY SO SUFFERED NO PAIN HIS END WAS PEACE"

Photograph by "International War Graves Photography Project"

Private Herbert BRIGHT, G/17599, 6th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, (formerly G/11818 Royal West Surrey Regiment), killed in action, Flanders France, 20th June 1918, age 38.

Born Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, son of Adolphus Herbert & Frances Ann Bright, of 23 Clare Street, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire / 100, Hertford St., Cambridge, Cambridgeshire.

1911 Census - 61 Alpha Road, Chesterton, Cambridge - Frances Ann Bright, age 54, widow, born Cambridge, Cambridgeshire; Herbert Bright, son, age 30, single, stationers assistant, born Cambridge, Cambridgeshire; Ellen Frances Bright, daughter, age 23, single, dressmaker, own account at home, born Cambridge, Cambridgeshire; Arthur Maurice Bright, son, age 18, single, scientific instrument maker, born Chesterton, Cambridgeshire; Wilfrid Nevil Bright, son, age 10, school, born Chesterton, Cambridgeshire.

Enlisted Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, age 35, height 5ft 4½ inches, weight 120lbs. Resided 23 Clare Street, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire. Formerly storekeeper.

Home 10th December 1915 to 6th October 1916; BEF 7th October 1916 to 16th March 1917; Home 17th March 1917 to 5th November 1917; BEF 6th November 1917 to 20th June 1918.

10th December 1915, enlisted; 11th December 1915, to Army Reserve; 25th March 1916, mobilized; 26th March 1916, posted 12th Reserve Battalion, The Queens Regiment; 1st September 1916, transferred to Training Reserve; 7th October 1916, posted BEF, embarked & transferred to Royal West Kent Regiment; 24th October 1916, posted 6th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 1st March 1917, sick to Field Ambulance; 1st March 1917, 6 General Hospital, Trevent?, nephritis; 15th March 1917, Le Treport, to England ex 16 General Hospital; 17th March 1917, posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 17th March 1917 to 11th April1917, Northamptonshire War Hospital, Duston, nephritis; 12th April 1917 to 5th June 1917, Hinwich House Auxiliary Hospital; 6th June 1917 to 15th June 1917, Northamptonshire War Hospital, Duston; 15th June 1917 to 1st October 1917, Eastern Command Depot, Shoreham by Sea,nephritis ; 2nd October 1917, posted 3rd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 6th November 1917, BEF Infantry Base Depot; 8th November 1917, embarked / disembarked; 8th November 1917, posted 6th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 28th November 1917, joined Battalion, "D" Company; 3rd January 1918, In the Field, WBAS? dirty on inspection Parade, 7 days confined to Barracks; 27th February 1918, attached 87 Field Company, Royal Engineers; 7th March 1918, St Omer, 59 General Hospital, admitted with albuminuria; 24th March 1918, Boulogne, 7 Convalescent Depot, 29th April 1918, 3 Infantry Base Depot, Etaples; 13th May 1918, rejoined Battalion in the Field.

13th January 1919, date to which Separation Allowance of 7/6 a week paid to mother will cease.

25th September 1919, Statement of Relatives - Mother, Frances Ann Bright, age 62, 100, Hertford St., Cambridge, Cambridgeshire.; Brothers - Charles Edmund Bright, age 36, 94 Teenstone? Street, Southfield, SW8; Arthur Maurice Bright, age 25, 10 Richmond? Terrace, Cambridge; Wilfrid Nevil Bright, age 19, 100, Hertford St., Cambridge, Cambridgeshire; Sister, Ellen Frances Bright, age 30, 100, Hertford St., Cambridge, Cambridgeshire.

Buried at Harponville Communal Cemetery Extension, C8, Somme, France.

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