Category: Military
Rank: Private
Regiment or Ship: London Regiment; Somerset Land Infantry; Wiltshire Regiment.
Service Number(s): 5439; 33399; 27169
Date of Birth: 1894
Place of Birth: Rye, Sussex
Date of Death: 1950
Place of Death: Oxford, Ontario, Canada
Photos and newspaper articles
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Family Information
Parents: William (1863-1898) and Caroline Kate, nee Dowson, (1869-1939).
Siblings: Clara Kate (1895-1980).
William married Myrtle Alberta Parkins on 3rd September 1919 in Oxford Ontario. Canada.
First World War Experience
Nothing apart from his Medal Rolls has survived and this shows that William was awarded the Victory Medal and the British War Medal. In a local newspaper dated 1st June 1918 he was listed as missing and his address as Bexhill but no trace of him can be found in the 1911 census. It may be that he had emigrated to Canada but came back to enlist during the war years – going back to Canada afterwards. He was probably lodging in Bexhill – hence the mention in the newspaper.