The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Pte T O Packer

Private Thomas Osborne PACKER, 17185, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment.

Born St Pancras, London, enlisted 11th December 1915, Islington, age 36, height 5ft 6 inches, resided 68 Stamford Road, South Tottenham, N / Pentonville Cottage, Priory Square, Rectory Road, Farnborough, Hampshire Formerly postman.

Husband of May Packer, (nee Allen, spinster), married 6th April 1914, Islington. Register Office

Children - Thomas Alfred Packer, born 14th June 1914, Holloway; Charles Ernest Packer, born 4th November 1915, Tottenham; Mary Theresa Packer, born 25th November 1916, Tottenham;

Home, 11th December 1915 to 7th February 1917.

11th December 1915, enlisted; 12th December 1915, to Army Reserve; 5th August 1916, mobilized; 7th August 1916, posted 3rd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 31st August 1916 to 21st September 1916, Fort Pitt Hospital, Chatham, very neurotic, complains of sleeplessness, always depressed and does not improve, melancholic;

17th January 1917, St Albans Hospital.

17th January 1917, Medical Report - disability, mental instability, origin not known. Enlisted on 7th August 1916, after a few weeks training at Chatham wandered away to London, was sent to Edmonton Hospital by the Police - after a stay of two weeks then to his Regiment. Has periodically recovered from the ?????? condition, but is unstable, Is mentally enfeebled. Not the result of and not aggravated by service. Permanent capacity not lessened.

7th February 1917, discharged as "no longer physically fit for War Service" due to sickness Silver War Badge issued.

Rejected for Pension.

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