The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

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Private Thomas George Richard ROBINSON, 13055, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment.

Enlisted 12th December 1915, Rochester, Kent, age 26, height 5ft 5 inches, resided 5 Gadds Hill, Higham, Rochester, Kent / 1 Broome Hill Cottage, Strood, Rochester, Kent / Slip?Cott, Green Street Green, Dartford, Kent. Formerly waggoner.

Husband of Bessie Robinson, (nee Banks, spinster), married 11th January 1913, Higham, Rochester, Kent.

Children - George Thomas Robinson, born 11th June 1913, Higham, Strood, Kent; Jessie Darkis Bessie Robinson, born 11th December 1914, Rochester, Kent; Charles Horace Frederick Robinson, born 14th July 1917, Rochester, Kent.

Home, 12th December 1915 to 28th March 1917; BEF, 29th March 1917 to 24th July 1917; Home, 25th July 1917 to 3rd October 1917.

12th December 1915, enlisted; 13th December 1915, to Army Reserve; 10th April 1916, mobilized from Army Reserve; 12th April 1916, posted 12th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 1st September 1916, posted 3rd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 29th March 1917, posted 6th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 25th July 1917, posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment.

12th September 1917, Bath War Hospital, discharged approved;

3rd October 1917, discharged as "no longer physically fit for War Service" due to wounds Silver War Badge issued.

Pension, 22/- a week to be reviewed in 52 weeks, disability, gun shot wound, penetrating liver, attributable.

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