The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Pte W H Dodds

Private William Henry DODDS, 9458, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment.

Enlisted 9th August 1915, Lewisham, age 21, height 5ft 4 inches, resided 25 Knowle Street, New Cross / 13 Chilworthy Street, New Cross, SE14. Formerly biscuit maker.

Husband of Clara May Dodds, (nee Pilditch), 25 Knowle Street, New Cross. Married 23rd May 1915, St James Hatcham, London.

Home, 9th August 1915 to 2nd May 1916; BEF, 3rd May 1916 to 7th June 1917; Home, 8th June 1917 to 5th September 1918.

9th August 1915, enlisted & posted 11th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 3rd May 1916, posted BEF; 27th May 1917, wounded, multiple gun shot wounds; 8th June 1917, posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment & admitted Brook War Hospital, Shooters Hill, Woolwich, SE; 12th March 1918, Brook War Hospital, Shooters Hill, Woolwich, SE, furlough granted pending admission to Queen Marys Hospital, Roehampton, home address, 30 Witcher Street, New Cross, SE; 4th September 1918, Charterhouse Military Hospital.

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

Pension, 27/6 a week for 13 weeks from 6th September 1918, then 16/6 a week, to be reviewed in 4 weeks, pending enquiry.

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