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2/5th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment
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A/Sgt. Ronald Gwyn Silk 1st Battalion Royal West Kent Regiment Gwyn Silk joined the Royal West Kent Territorial Battalion in August 1914 just after the outbreak of war. He was 16. By 1915 he was serving with 2/5th Battalion on the home front. Promoted to Lance Corporal in June 1916.
By October 1917 he had been sent overseas and transferred to B Coy, 1st Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment as an A/Sgt. On 26th of October 1917 he took part in the Battalion's fateful attack just to the north of Gheluvelt in the Ypres Salient. Part of a much larger operation, the attack failed when the 7th Division on its right flank failed to take the village. The attacking Coys (B & D) of 1st Battalion took their first objectives but were then cut off by encircling counterattacks. Every man became a casualty, killed wounded, or taken prisoner. Gwyn Silk was wounded by shrapnel in the right thigh and later pulled out of a German trench by his captors.
He spent the rest of the war in Prisoner of War Camps in Belgium and Germany, returning to the UK on 30th of December 1918.
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Pte. Harold Edwin Rosevear 1st Btn. Royal West Kent Regiment Harold Rosevear enlisted on 8th December 1915. He was initially posted to the 2/5th battalion of The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment. He embarked at Folkestone on 12th September 1917 and disembarked at Boulogne. He was then posted to 3/4th Battalion, arriving at the infantry base in Etaples. He was then posted to 1st Battalion Royal West Kent Regiment and was noted as in the field on 16th September 1917. On 3rd October 1917 he was wounded in action, receiving gunshot wounds to the head and leg.
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