The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private S C Weedon

Private Sidney Charles WEEDON, TF/1102, 1st/4th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, died, (of septicemia, contracted from drinking water from a native well), at Jubbulpore, India, 27th May 1915, age 22.

Born 19th August 1892, St Paul's, Maidstone, Kent, second son of Albert Weedon, and Alice Celia, (daughter of John Fryer of Maidstone, Kent), of 23 Scott Street, Maidstone, Kent.

Educated St Paul's School, Maidstone, Kent.

Enlisted 21st February 1911, Maidstone, Kent, age 18, height 5ft 9 inches, weight 10st 6lbs. Formerly wire mattress maker / papermaker.

Home 21st February 1911 to 28th October 1914; India 29th October 1914 to 27th May 1915.

30th July 1911 to 13th August 1911, Crowborough, Sussex, Annual Training; 26th May 1912 to 2nd June 1912, Worthing, Sussex, Annual Training; 26th July 1914 to 4th August 1914, Salisbury, Annual Training; 5th August 1914, embodied Service; 5th August 1914 to 9th August 1914, Dover; 9th August 1914 to 28th August 1914, Canterbury; 28th August 1914 to 29th October 1914, Sandwich; 29th October 1914 to 2nd December 1914, SS Somali; 4th December 1914 to 27th May 1915, Jubbulpore, India; 2nd January 1915 to 7th January 1915, Jubbulpore Hospital, tonsillitis; 17th May to 27th May 1915, Jubbulpore Hospital, enteritis infection.

18th November 1919, Statement of Relatives - Widow, none; Children, none; Father, Albert Weedon; Mother, Dead; Brothers - Percy Arthur, age 24, 23 Scott Street, Maidstone; Herbert Fred, age 20, 23 Scott Street, Maidstone; Sisters - Ada Alice, age 22, 37 Kitcherners Terrace, North Shields.

Buried English Cemetery, Jubbulpore, India, with full military honours; a marble cross erected by the officers, non-commissioned officers, and men of his Company, marks the grave.

The Officer Commanding the Signal Section wrote:" He was in my Signal Section, and was one of the best and keenest signallers I had. He and his brother have been of great assistance to me, always ready to do anything and always doing it thoroughly and well." Two of his brothers are now (1916) on service: Private Leonard Weedon and Lance Corporal Percy Weedon, both with the Royal West Kent Regiment.

Commemorated at Kirkee 1914-1918 Memorial, Face 7, India

The London Gazette 26th May 1916.

SOLDIERS BALANCES UNDISPOSED OF.

In pursuance of “The Regimental Debts Acts 1893” notice is hereby given that there is available for distribution amongst the Next of Kin or others entitled the sum of money set opposite to the name of each of the deceased Soldiers named in the lists which are published with this notice in the London Gazette and the “Army List” and are also to be seen at the Regimental Depots throughout the United Kingdom.

Applications from persons supposing themselves entitled as Next of Kin should be addressed by letter to “Secretary, War Office, Park Buildings, St James Park, London, SW” and marked outside “Effects”

War Office May 26 1916 R H BRADE

LIST CCCCXCIII of the names of deceased Soldiers whose Personal Estate is held for distribution amongst the Next of Kin or others entitled – Effects 1915-16

Private S C WEEDON - 1/4th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment. £5 13 s 2d

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