The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Pte S L H Parham

Private Stuart Leslie Harold PARHAM, 10511, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment.

Born 6th April 1896, Sidcup, Kent, enlisted 7th September 1914, Woolwich, age 18, height 5ft 5½ inches, weight 104lbs, teeth require attention, resided "The Chestnuts", Warwick Road, Sidcup, Kent. Formerly storekeeper.

Son of Charles Parham, 8, Warwick Road, Sidcup, Kent.

Home, 7th September 1914 to 25th July 1915; BEF, 26th July 1915 to 6th July 1916; Home, 7th July 1916 to 4th March 1918.

7th September 1914, posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 10th October 1914, posted 7th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 5th December 1915, 56 Field Ambulance, tonsillitis; 8th December 1915, to Duty; 15th December 1915, illness not yet diagnosed; 23rd December 1915, pharyngitus; 1st July 1916, wounded at Carnery? by machine gun bullet in attack; 1st July 1916, Casualty Clearing Station, wounded, gun shot wound, upper arm; 3rd July 1916, Rouen 12 General Hospital; 5th July 1916, transferred to Aux. Hospital; 5th July 1916, transferred to England; 7th July 1916, posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 7th July 1916 to 19th December 1916, Queen Mary's Military Hospital, Whalley, Lancashire, on admission penetrating wound of left elbow. Entrance inner side of posterior surface of upper arm 1" above internal condyle. Exit of front of arm ½" above bend of elbow, slightly to inner side. There was great pain and hyperasthesia of left thumb and 1st & 2nd fingers left hand on palmer aspect. 10th July 1916 X-ray, no injury of bone. 10th December 1916,wound healed; 9th January 1917, posted Eastern Command Depot, Shoreham by Sea, Sussex; 27th September 1917, posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment.

4th March 1918, discharged as "no longer physically fit for War Service" due to wounds Silver War Badge issued.

Disability, gun shot wound, left arm

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