The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Pte M Price

Private Marshall Edwin PRICE, 13849, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment.

Enlisted 30th June 1915, Stroud, Gloucestershire, age 33, height 5ft 6¼ incges, resided The Street, Leonard Stanley, Stonehouse, Gloucestershire. Formerly farm labourer.

Husband of Margaret Amy May Price, (nee Cook, spinster), married 17th September 1902, Register Office, Stroud, Gloucestershire.

Children - Winifred Mable Price, born 25th December 1903, Cainscross, Gloucestershire; Gertrude May Price, born 20th May , Eastington, Gloucestershire; Marjorie Joan Daisy Price, born 12th October 1913, Stonehouse, Gloucestershire; Ethel Beatrice May Price, born 21st February 1917, Stonehouse, Gloucestershire.

Home, 30th June 1915 to 1st August 1917.

30th June 1915, enlisted & posted Depot, Gloucestershire Regiment, 22984; 3rd July 1915, posted 3rd Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment; 25th March 1916, transferred to 1st Home Station, Garrison Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 11th July 1917, Bermondsey Military Hospital, Ladywell Road, Lewisham, SE.

1st August 1917, discharged as "no longer physically fit for War Service" due to sickness Silver War Badge issued.

Pension 22/- a week for 26 weeks, condition. Disability, VDH & rheumation?

This page was last updated on 13-Dec-2014.