Service
Record Notes
PARSONS, WILLIAM HENRY
Royal Marine Light Infantry. Unit. Deal Bn.
Rank. Lance Corporal. Death date. 18th August 1915.
Died of Septicaemia in the
Military Hospital, Cairo. Burial. Cairo War Memorial
cemetery, (Egypt 9)
Service History ex CH 9351.
Private RMLI (5 years 296 days)
Enlisted London 15/10/1896.
Discharged, paid £20. 6/8/02.
Re-enlisted London 24/8/14.
Embarked R. M. Brigade 13/9/14.
(Not Antwerp) MEF 28/2/15 to 16th Stationary
Hospital, Neurasthenia. Service No. CH/18745.
Notes. Appointed Lance Corporal
1/1/15. A bakers assistant (1896) and
gardener (1914). B. Wheathampstead, St. Albans
12/3/1878. Father. Henry Gustard Wood,
Wheathampstead, Herts. Married in Paddington, London,
1/11/1902. Wife. Helen, Gustard Wood,
Wheathampstead, Herts. Later of Elcombe, Lyndhurst, Hants
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