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Pte. Joseph Victor Rowe
British Army 1st Battalion Royal West Kent Regiment
from:Rochester
My Grandad, Joseph Rowe, was in the army from 1904 to 1907. I'm not sure whether he joined in Dublin or Rochester. I always thought that he and his family had spent some time in Dublin so it may have been there. Possibly he left the Army to get back to Kent but he was down as a Reservist from 1907. So he was mobilised from the start of WW1. He joined the 1st Battalion of the West Kents on 14th of August 1914 in France.
He was reported as missing on 24th of August after the BEF started retreating at Mons on 23rd August. He was in a German prison camp for the duration of the war. He was repatriated to West Kent Depot on 16th of December 1918 and received the Silver War Badge and a Ã‚Â£20 war gratuity in May 1919.

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