William James Summerill
Memorial: Hanham Abbots - The Church of St George
Regiment: Labour Corps
Medals: British War Medal, Silver War Badge, Victory Medal
Rank and number: Private 59580 then 105406
Parents: Jacob and Sarah Caroline Summerill
Marital status: Married
Home address: 34 Pentwyn Avenue, Penrhiwceiber, Rhondda Valley
Pre-war occupation: Coal Miner
Date of birth: 1884
Place of birth: St. George, Bristol
Date of death: 1920
Buried/Commemorated at: Buried in Pontypridd in Wales and commemorated on Kingswood Holy Trinity Church Memorial
Age: 35
Further information:
William was born in St. George in Bristol, the eldest child and only son of a miner with four younger sisters. The family moved to South Wales where both father and son worked down the mines. By 1911, William's mother had died, his father had remarried and William had acquired a stepbrother and stepsister. William married Elizabeth Susannah Collier in 1909 and together they had a son William Thomas.
William enlisted in December of 1915 in the Devonshire Regiment before transferring within the Regiment to the Labour Corps, 176th Labour Company. On the 7th of November 1918 he was discharged due to sickness and just over a year later he died at home in Wales.
Note - William is not on the CWGC website.
By kind permission, this information is based on the following source(s):
This information has been provided by Sarah Hands, Volunteer Researcher for the South Gloucestershire War Memorials Web Site.
By kind permission, this information is based on the following source(s):
https://www.cwgc.org/
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/
https://www.findmypast.co.uk/
https://www.forces-war-records.co.uk/