Private William Allington

Army Number: 37916

Battalion: 15th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Son of Horace Allington, of Hose, near Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire. He was a waggoner prior to enlisting at Hose on 9th December 1915. He went to France on 12th July 1916 and was accidentally drowned, 2nd August 1916, whilst bathing in the River Somme, France.

Commemorated Thiepval Memorial, France. Pier and Face 10 C 10 D and 11 A

Private William Allington is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
St. Michael’s Church War Memorial, Hose, Leicestershire.