Private William Watson Parkin

Army Number: 266247 (formerly 3881)

Battalion: 1/7th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Son of John George and Mary Parkin, of 34, Colliery Road, Nottingham. Went to France on 27th October 1915. Killed in action, 1st July 1916, aged 18, during the attack on the German positions at Gommecourt, France, on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.

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