Great Great Grandad John Charles Kitts
John Charles Kitts (b. 23/11/1879) was a sergeant in the 9th Battalion of King's Liverpool Regiment and a private in the Army Service Corps, service number DM2/117678. John enlisted in the Army Service Corps on 13/08/1915 and was discharged on 29/09/1917 due to ill health. He was taken to Graylingwell War Hospital, Chichester, West Sussex, which used to be a lunatic asylum. He died of acute nephritis as a result of being gassed on 01/10/1917 aged 38. He is buried in Anfield cemetary, Liverpool, grave memorial reference number XVII.C.458. There are in other databases copies of service records from John's time in the Army Service Corps; catalogue reference WO/372/11, image reference 59364. MAB Services Ltd, Eagle House, West Midlands.
Death penny; Territorial Force Efficiency Medal, awarded 01/10/1909, six years before John signed up to the Army Service Corps.
CONTRIBUTOR
Edmund Kitts
DATE
1909 - 1917-10-01
LANGUAGE
eng
ITEMS
2
INSTITUTION
Europeana 1914-1918
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METADATA
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