The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Pte J Preen

Private John PREEN, 5158, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment.

Enlisted 29th December 1914, Mill Hill, age 32, height 5ft 4 inches, resided 37 Denbigh Road, Willesden, London, NW / 61 High Road, Willesden, London, NW. Formerly woodworker.

Previously served 3rd Battalion, (Militia), Royal West Kent Regiment.3

Husband of Bertha Preen, (nee Agger, spinster), married 24th April 1905, Register Office, Barnet.

Children - John Charles Preen, born 13th May 1907, Barnet; Ellen Florence Preen, born, 5th July 1909, Hendon; Ivy Sarah Preen, born 5th July 1912, Brentford.

29th December 1914, enlisted & posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 5th January 1915, posted 3rd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 18th November 1915, posted ECD?; 23rd February 1916, posted 3rd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment.

22nd March 1916, discharged as "no longer physically fit for War Service" due to sickness Silver War Badge issued.

Pension, 10/- a week for 6 months, conditional.

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