The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Pte W H Parker

Private William Henry PARKER, 1794, (3370), Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment.

Born Shoreditch, London, Middlesex, enlisted 5th September 1914, Tottenham, age 23, height 5ft 8 inches, weight 127lbs, resided 15 Rays Avenue, Angel Road, Edmonton / 8 Blanche Street, Fox Holes, Rochdale, Lancashire. Formerly carpenter.

Husband of Lilian Parker, (nee Stokes, spinster), married 2nd April 1913, Edmonton Register Office, resided 15 Rays Avenue, Angel Road, Edmonton.

Child - Lilian Violet Parker, born 5th April 1914, Edmonton; Marjorie Mary Parker, born 28th January 1916, Edmonton.

Home, 5th September 1914 to 25th July 1915; BEF, 26th July 1915 to 5th October 1916; Home, 6th October 1916 to 11th January 1917; BEF, 12th January 1917 to 15th April 1917; Home, 16th April 1917 to 12th June 1918.

5th September 1914, enlisted & posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 9th September 1914, posted 7th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 10th October 1914, posted 7th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 2nd October 1916, wounded slight, gun shot wound, left hand; 6th October 1916, posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 4th December 1916, posted 3rd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 12th January 1917, posted BEF & 6th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 16th April 1917, posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 13th April 1918, posted Eastern Command Depot, Shoreham by Sea, Sussex; 19th April 1918, posted 3rd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment.

12th June 1918, discharged as "no longer physically fit for War Service" due to wounds Silver War Badge issued.

Pension, 27/6 a week for 4 weeks, then 11/- a week to be reviewed in 35 weeks.

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