Name
William Maskell
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
05/12/1916
45
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Farrier Sergeant
T2/13002
Army Service Corps.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
RICHMOND CEMETERY, SURREY
Z. 5917.
United Kingdom
UK & Other Memorials
Rickmansworth Urban District Memorial
St. Mary's Church Memorial, Rickmansworth
Pre War
Born in Maidenhead about 1886. He was the husband of Martha Maskell of 6 or 17 Stanley Cottages, Rickmansworth.
The 1911 census shows William as a blacksmith living at Nags Head Lane Great Missenden with his wife whom he married about 1900 and their two children William Arthur, 7 and Walter 1.
Recorded as enlisting in Watford.
Wartime Service
He entered the Army Service Corps as a farrier corporal and was then promoted to Sergeant.
He died in a military hospital in Richmond, Surrey
Additional Information
Listed in the CWGC records as Maskill.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Tanya Britton, Robert and Sally Williams
