Name
Charles Alfred Parkins
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
17/02/1917
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
36434
Princess Charlotte of Wales’ (Royal Berkshire) Regiment
6th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
REGINA TRENCH CEMETERY, GRANDCOURT
VII. C. 25.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Little Berkhamsted War Memorial, Not listed on the Hertfordshire Regimental Memorial, All Saints Church, Hertford
Pre War
Charles was the nephew of John Parkins, the dairy farmer at Bush Farm, Epping Green. Charles was born in 1897 at Holborn and in 1911 was living with his uncle and attending school in Little Berkhamsted.
Wartime Service
Charles was resident in Islington when he enlisted at Hertford in the Hertfordshire Regiment (service number 5483).
He subsequently transferred to the 6th Battalion of the Royal Berkshire Regiment and was killed in action, age 19, on 17th February 1917 while the battalion was under attack in trenches near Grandcourt.
Acknowledgments
Martin Cope, Jim Maynard, Jonty Wild
