[ Home ] [ Standen Family ] [ Latter Family ] [ Rothwell Family ] [ Bassett Family ] [ Isle of Thanet Churches ] [ 1836 Map of The Isle of Thanet ] [ Out of Parish Events ] [ Isle of Thanet Kellys 1936 ] [ London Marriage Licences for Kent ] [ Pigots 1840 Kent ] [ Census 1851 2% sample - Kent ] [ Isle of Thanet Kellys 1903 ] [ Ramsgate PR Extracts from 1901 ] [ Ramsgate in the Great War ] [ Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment ] [ Ramsgate 1895 Directory ] [ Perrin Family ] [ Ramsgate in old postcards ] [ Ramsgate & St L 1899 directory ] [ Ramsgate & St L Churches from 1903 ] [ Great War Dead - Isle of Thanet ] [ Ramsgate Directory 1914/15 ] [ Ramsgate Pubs from 1903 ] [ Isle of Thanet Kellys 1929 ]

Units / Commanding Officers

London Gazette 14th August 1914.

Quartermaster-Serjeant William John Alderman , The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment, to be Second Lieutenant. Dated 15th August, 1914

London Gazette 24th November 1914.

6th Battalion, The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment.

Second Lieutenant W. J. Alderman to be temporary Lieutenant. Dated 29th October, 1914.

London Gazette 15th April 1915

The undermentioned Second Lieutenants to be temporary Lieutenants. Dated 15th November, 1914.

J. W. Alderman 

The undermentioned Second Lieutenants (temporary Lieutenants) to be Lieutenants.

J. W. Alderman. Dated 11lth December, 1914.

London Gazette 28th May 1915.

The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment, 6th Battalion.

Lieutenant William J. Alderman to be temporary Captain. Dated 14th April 1915.

London Gazette 17th November 1916.

Temporary Capt. W. J. Alderman (Lieutenant Royal West Kent Regiment), to be Adjutant, vice Captain

G. E. Wingfield-Stratford. 19th September 1916.

London Gazette 23rd February 1917.

Royal West Kent Regiment, Temporary Capt. W. J. Alderman (Lieutenant Royal West Kent Regiment) to be acting Major whilst 2nd in command. of a Battalion 5th  December 1916.

London Gazette 6th March 1917.

Temp. Captain. W. J. Alderman (Lieutenant Royal West Kent Regiment) relinquishes his appointment as Adjutant 20th November 1916.

Temp. Captain (acting Major whilst 2nd in command of a Battalion) W. J. Alderman to be temporary Major 5th January 1917.

London Gazette 1st June 1917.

TO BE COMPANION OF THE DISTINGUISHED SERVICE ORDER.

Lieutenant  (temporary Major) William John Alderman, Royal West Kent Regiment

London Gazette 7th July 1917.

Royal West Kent Regiment, Temporary Major W. J,. Alderman (Captain Royal West Kent Regiment) to be acting  Lt.-Colonel, whilst commanding a Battalion, 18th May 1917.

London Gazette 30th October 1917.

Royal West Kent Regiment, Captain (temp. Major) W. J. Alderman, D.S.O., relinquishes the acting rank of Lt.-.Colonel on ceasing to command a Battalion. 25 August 1917.

London Gazette 21st June 1918.

Royal West Kent Regiment, Captain (temp. Major) W. J. Alderman, D.S.O., to be acting Lt.-Colonel while commanding a Battalion, 2nd November 1917  (Since killed in action).

William John ALDERMAN, DSO, Acting Lieutenant Colonel, 6th  Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Tuesday 20th November 1917.

Buried Fifteen Ravine British Cemetery, Villers-Pouich, Nord, France, grave III B 10.

Link to Snodland Historical Society & then go to World War I casualties