The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Pte H Parrish

Private Herbert PARRISH, 5264, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment.

Enlisted 31st December 1914, Maidstone, Kent, age 28, height 5ft 3½ inches, resided Buston House, Hunton nr Maidstone, Kent / 71 Bower Lane, Maidstone, Kent / 26 Tovil Hill, Maidstone, Kent. Formerly gardener.

Husband of Eva Ruth Parrish, (nee Wicks, spinster), married 30th June 1908, Maidstone, Kent.

Children - Alfred Herbert Parrish, born 17th June 1909, Hunton, Kent; Eva Alice Parrish, born 18th November 1910, Hunton, Kent; Rowland Thomas Parrish, born 18th February 1912, Hunton, Kent; Frank Guersion Parrish, born 255th October 1913, Hunton, Kent.

Home, 31st December 1914 to 8th January 1915; BEF, 9th January 1915 to 12th October 1916; Home, 13th October 1916 to 13th July 1917.

31st December 1914, enlisted & posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 9th January 1915, posted 7th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 28th June 1916, wounded, slight; 13th August 1916, wounded; 28th September 1916. wounded, gun shot wound, left arm fractured; 13th October 1916, posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 28th February 1917, 4th Northern General Hospital, Lincoln; 7th March 1917, Hagle Place, VAD Hospital, Maidstone, Kent; 22nd June 1917, War Hospital, Croydon.

13th July 1917, discharged as "no longer physically fit for War Service" due to wounds Silver War Badge issued.

Pension, 13/9 a week to be reviewed in 26 weeks. Disability, gun shot wound, left arm.

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