The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Pte W Redwood

Private William REDWOOD, 2812, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment.

Born Shoreditch, London, Middlesex, enlisted 9th September 1914, Finsbury Barracks, age 34, height 5ft 3¼ inches, weight 116lbs, resided 52 Westmoreland Place, City Road, London, N1. Formerly horsekeeper.

Husband of Elizabeth Emma Redwood, (nee Tyson, spinster), married 14th February 1904, St Pauls, Clerkenwell.

Children - Frederick Redwood, born 18th May 1914, London, St Sepulchre, Allhallows; Harry Edwin Redwood, born 7th April 1911, Shoreditch ; Annie Redwood, born 19th April 1916, Shoreditch.

Home, 9th September 1914 to 259th August 1915; BEF, 30th August 1915 to 8th May 1916; Home, 9th May 1916 to 7th May 1917.

9th September 1914, enlisted & posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 12th September 1914, posted 8th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 9th May 1916, posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 16th April 1917, Exeter Military Hospital.

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

Pension, 13/9 a week for 26 weeks, conditional, disability, gas poisoning.

This page was last updated on 20-Dec-2014.