The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private W Apps

Photograph by Geoffrey Gillon

Private Walter APPS, G/18909, 6th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, died, 27th March 1918, age 21.

Born Farmingham, Kent, son of Richard Apps and Emmiline Apps, of Banks Farm, Teynham, Kent.

Enlisted 14th February 1916, Sittingbourne, Kent, age 19, height 5ft 5 inches, weight 135lbs, resided Quinton Cottages, Milton Regis, near Sittingbourne, Kent. Formerly horseman.

Home, 14th February 1916 to 10th October 1916; BEF, 11th October 1916 to 7th August 1917; Home, 8th August 1917 to 5th March 1918.

14th February 1916, enlisted into 8th Battalion The Buffs, Service No. 9902; 10th October 1916, embarked; 20th October 1916, transferred to Royal West Kent Regiment; 23rd October 1916, joined Battalion; 16th July 1917, Arras, gun shot wound in face, complete blindness in left eye, complete deafness in left ear; 19th July 1917, Rouen, 11th General Hospital; 7th August 1917 to England; 8th August 1917, Red Cross Hospital, Netley.

Perforating wound of face, entrance tip of nose, exit behind left ear, causing displacement of ear and injuries to internal ear. Left eye multiple ruptures of choroid. Can now only separate teeth about 1 inch. Permanently unfit. 100% disability for 12 months then to be reviewed.

5th March 1918, discharged as "no longer physically fit for War Service" due to wounds. Silver War Badge issued.

Pension of 27/6 a week for 52 weeks, then to be reviewed.

27th March 1918, died.

Buried at Bobbing (St Bartholomew) Churchyard, Kent.

NOTE: Not listed in Regimental History or Soldiers Died in the Great War but included on CWGC website.

External link to Ashwood Roll of Honour

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