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The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

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Private Walter Smythe PARSONS, 15773, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, died, 4th June 1921, age 40.

Born at Brighton, Sussex, son of Walter and Ellen Parsons.

1909 June Quarter, Brighton Registration District, married Florence Lottie Hessey, 108, Cowper Street, Hove, Sussex.

Children - Walter Leslie Parsons, born 24th September 1910;

1911 Census - 108, Cowper Street, Hove, Sussex. - Walter Smythe Parsons, head, age 30, married, Insurance Agent, Life Insurance Company, worker, born Brighton, Sussex; Florence Lottie Parsons, wife, age 29, married 2 years, 1 child, still alive, born Brighton, Sussex; Walter Leslie Parsons, son, age 6 months, born Brighton, Sussex.

Children - Harold Charles Parsons, born 27th May 1913; Vera Nellie Parsons, born 20th November 1916.

Previously served 5 years, 2nd Royal Sussex Regiment, (Volunteers).

Enlisted Hove, Sussex, age 35 years & 1 month, height 5ft 5 inches, tattooed right forearm, crossed hands. Resided 108, Cowper St., Hove, Sussex. Formerly Insurance Agent.

Home, 13th November 1915 to 1st October 1917; BEF, 2nd October 1917 to 26th January 1918; Home, 27th January 1918 to 4th July 1918.

13th November 1915, enlisted; 14th November 1915, to Army Reserve; 6th June 1916, mobilized & posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 8th June 1916, posted 9th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 1st September 1916, posted 3rd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 2nd October 1917, posted BEF & 11th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 7th October 1917, joined Battalion; 21st December 1917, In the Field, 139 Field Ambulance, ventral hernia; 29th December 1917, 66 General Hospital, Boulogne; 13th January 1918, to Ambulance Train; 14th January 1918, 27 General Hospital; 26th January 1918, Marseilles, to England; 27th January 1918, posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 29th February 1918, posted Eastern Command Depot, Shoreham by Sea, Sussex; 16th May 1918, posted 3rd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment.

4th July 1918, discharged as "no longer physically fit for War Service" due to sickness Silver War Badge issued.

Buried at Hove Old Cemetery, E.180, United Kingdom.

NOTE: not included in Regimental History or Soldiers Died in the Great War; but shown on the CWGC web site.

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