Name
William (Will) Leonard Parkins
1884
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
23/12/1916
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Driver
T4/160039
Army Service Corps
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LEVERSTOCK GREEN (HOLY TRINITY) CHURCHYARD, HEMEL HEMPSTEAD
South of Church, near path.
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
None
UK & Other Memorials
Leverstock Green Village Memorial
Pre War
William Leonard Parkins was born in Leverstock Green in 1884 , the son of William and Ellen Parkins, and baptised on 10 February 1884 at Holy Trinity, Leverstock Green, Herts. His mother died in 1889, aged 31, and on the 1891 Census, his widowed father was living with children Annie, William and Thomas and nephew William Croft at Westwick Row, Leverstock Green, where he was working as a fishmonger. His father remarried to Lydia Jane Ashwell in May 1880 at Leverstock Green and they had another four children, Frederick, Cecil, Walter and Henry.
On the 1901 Census the family were living at Westwick Row, Leverstock Green, Herts, with his father working as a fishmonger and William was a farm labourer.
William married Annie (surname unknown) in 1910 and on the 1911 Census they were living at Tower Hill, Chipperfield, King's Langley, where he was working as a Cowman on a Farm. It is not known what happened to his wife as his sister Annie Jordan was named as his beneficiary. (See additional information below). He was said to be resident in Rickmansworth on enlistment.
His father died suddenly on 3 November 1916, aged 54.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Whitehall and served as a Driver in the Army Service Corps.
He died of nephritis and anaemia on 23 December 1916 at the Military Hospital in Weymouth, Dorset and was buried in Leverstock Green churchyard on 28 December 1916.
Additional Information
His sister Mrs Annie Jordan, received a war gratuity of £3 10s and pay owing of £16 5s 1d.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Jonty Wild, www.ourdacorum.org.uk, ourdacorumheritage.org.uk., lgchronicle20.homestead.com/1914 to 1918
