The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Pte W Pring

Private William PRING, 4729, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment.

Enlisted 2nd December 1914, Tonbridge, Kent, age 29, height 5ft 7½ inches, resided 2 The Cottage, Clifton Road, Tunbridge Wells, Kent / 23 Tunnel Road, Tunbridge Wells, Kent. Formerly labourer.

Previously served Royal Sussex, RGA, 6 years.

Husband of Nellie Ellen Pring, (nee Moon, spinster), married 23rd December 1911, Register Office, Tunbridge Wells, Kent.

Children - Charles William Pring, born 25th December 1911, Tunbridge Wells, Kent; Sydney James Pring, born 16th June 1914, Tunbridge Wells, Kent.

Home, 2nd December 1914 to 16th February 1915; BEF, 17th February 1915 to 21st April 1915; Home, 22nd April 1915 to 24th May 1917.

2nd December 1914, enlisted & posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 9th December 1914, posted 3rd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 3rd February 1915, awarded 28 days Field Punishment No.2. by Commanding Officer, for absence; 17th February 1915, posted 1st Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 18th April 1915, wounded; 4th November 1915, posted 3rd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 25th March 1916, posted 1st Home Station, Garrison Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment.

24th May 1917, discharged as "no longer physically fit for War Service" due to wounds Silver War Badge issued.

Pension, 19/3 a week for 26 weeks, conditional.

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