Name
William Chalkley
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
30/04/1915
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
3034
Hertfordshire Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
GUARDS CEMETERY, WINDY CORNER, CUINCHY
I. G. 13.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hitchin Town Memorial, 4 Co' Hertfordshire Reg' Territorials’ Memorial, Hitchin, St Mary's Church Roll of Honour, Hitchin, Hertfordshire Regimental Memorial, All Saints Church, Hertford
Pre War
Born and resident in Hitchin. His home address was Titmore Cottages, Queen St. Hitchin.
Wartime Service
William enlisted in Hertford and his Regimental Number was 3034. He was killed in action in France. He is shown as having been in the 4th Company and was in the Regiment by the 19th September 1914.
At the time of his death the Herts were in the region of Cuinchy and Bethune in the 2nd Division engaged in the trench routines of digging and repairing, putting up wire, sometimes in the front line and sometimes in support or in reserve.
He is buried in Plot 1, Row G, Grave 13 in the Guards Cemetery, Cuinchy, France.
Acknowledgments
Adrian Dunne, David C Baines, Jonty Wild
