Name
(Frederick) Maurice Drinkill
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
01/07/1916
24
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lieutenant
Royal Fusiliers
5th (City of London) (Reserve) Bn., attached 2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
AUCHONVILLERS MILITARY CEMETERY
Plot II, Row F, Grave 1.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Holy Rood Catholic Church Memorial, Watford
Pre War
Son of Richard and Ellen Rosanna (nee DENNETT) DRINKILL of Chelsea.
His parents married 11 September 1886 at St James’, Spanish Place, Marylebone. Richard deserted the family c1897, his death is proving elusive. Ellen, a widow of Wimbledon, London SW19, died 11 May 1940 aged 77.
Maurice was born 1892 in the Amersham, Bucks, district.
He has an entry in the National Probate Calendar.
On the 1901 Census, an ‘orphan’ aged 8 he lived in Watford. On the 1911 Census, a boy clerk at the Colonial Office aged 19, he lodged in Westminster, London.
Wartime Service
He enlisted 24 November 1914, and was promoted temporary Lieutenant 20 September 1915; next of kin his mother of Chelsea, London.
He embarked from Devonport 24 October 1915 and disembarked Mudros 11 November 1915.
He was entitled to the Victory, British War and 1914-15 Star medals, his qualifying date being October 1915, and was either killed or died of wounds received in action.
Additional Information
*1 More correctly London
Regiment (London Rifle Brigade).
Acknowledgments
Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)
