Holder's service and personal details:
Private Reginald Thomas DREDGE, 12235, Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment.
Enlisted 10th December 1915, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, age 25, height 5ft 6 inches, resided 3 Stanhope Road, Tunbridge Wells, Kent / 116 St James Road, Tunbridge Wells, Kent / 10 Brunswick Hill, Reading, Berkshire. Formerly working jeweller?
Son of James Dredge, 10 Brunswick Hill, Reading, Berkshire.
Home, 10th December 1915 to 2nd July 1916; BEF, 3rd July 1916 to 29th December 1918; Home, 30th December 1918 to 5th April 1919.
10th December 1915, enlisted; 11th December 1915, to Army Reserve; 12th February 1916, mobilized; 14th February 1916, posted 12th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 3rd July 1916, posted BEF, Infantry Base Depot; 5th July 1916, posted 6th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 13th July 1916, posted 7th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 15th November 1916, missing, Prisoner of War; 30th December 1918, repatriated at Hull, posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment.
5th April 1919, 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 neurasthenia, 50%.
Potted history of battalion:
Probably with D Company, 7th Battalion, Royal West Kents and taken prisoner during the attack on Desire and Grand court Trenches on 17 November 1916, in the closing phases of the Somme offensive.
Medal condition:
Very Fine, some loss to gilding through rubbing. On grubby length of original ribbon.
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