Name
William Aubrey Chalkley
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
01/06/1918
20
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
35605
Essex Regiment
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Searched but not found
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
HARPENDEN (ST. NICHOLAS) CHURCHYARD
O. O. 36.
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
No Report
UK & Other Memorials
Harpenden Town Memorial, Church of St Nicholas Memorial, Harpenden
Pre War
William Albert was born in 1897 in Harpenden to Albert Chalkley, a gardener, and Ellen (nee Pinney).
On the 1911 Census the family were living at Wheathampstead Road. By the 1911 Census William, who was working as a grocer’s errand boy and older brother Arthur, an Ironmonger shop assistant, were living with their grandmother at Grove Road.
Wartime Service
William's service is counted from 2 Mar 1916 on Discharge document and was enlisted on 18 Jan 1917 in the 3rd Battalion Essex regiment as Private 35605.
He was examined by an Army medical board on 9 May 1917, having problems with his lungs. William was discharged on 30 May 1917. He died in Harpenden on 1 Jun 1918 and is buried in St Nicholas Churchyard.
Additional Information
William received a Gratuity of £50.
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper
Jonty Wild, Mary Skinner, Harpenden & District Local History Society (www.harpenden-history.org.uk)
