The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Pte H T Divall

Private Harry Thomas DIVALL, 10496, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment.

Born, 28th July 1896, Horton Kirby, Kent, enlisted 3rd September 1914, Woolwich, age 18, height 5ft 3 inches, weight 108lbs, resided 5 Home Farm Cottages, St Pauls Cray, Kent / April 1921, Hut 18, 2 M C Centre, Woodcote Park, Epsom, Surrey. Formerly farm labourer.

Son of Frances & Charles Frederick Divall, New Barn Cottages, Swanley, Kent.

Home, 3rd September 1914 to 8th December 1915; Indian Expeditionary Force, 9th December 1915 to 18th March 1916; India, 19th March 1916 to 22nd January 1917; Indian Expeditionary Force, 23rd January 1917 to 11th February 1919; En route to UK (invalided), 12th February 1919 to 31st March 1919; Home, 1st April 1919 to 9th October 1919.

3rd September 1914, enlisted, posted 3rd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 9th December 1915, posted 2nd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 11th March 1916, wounded, gun shot wound; 2nd November 1918, wounded, gun shot wound, chest; 1st April 1919, posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 26th August 1919, posted HSD, 2nd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment.

9th October 1919, discharged as "no longer physically fit for War Service" due to wounds. Silver War Badge issued

Pension 28/- a week to be reviewed in 26 weeks. Disability, gun shot wounds, 70%.

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