ADKIN+H.

Adkin, H., Private, 3135, 5th Bn, Notts & Derby Regiment Died 27th July 1919 Derby (Normanton) Cemetery, B, 1432

Service record from the National Archives (available from www.ancestry.co.uk)

Henry Adkin resided with his wife, Hannah and their two children, at 18, Randolph Road, Derby Enlisted at Derby 28th October 1914 aged 27 and 10 months 5 feet 8½ inches in height Employed as a traveller He never served abroad, being discharged as medically unfit due to phthisis and tuberculosis on the 28th January 1916. He contracted a chill and a cough from lying on wet grass in camp at West Mersea, which gradually got worse, resulting in the coughing up of blood and rapid loss of weight.

1911 Census: Henry Adkin was a 24 year old milkman, of 84, Havelock Road, Derby. Born in Derby, he was the husband of Hannah Adkin, also aged 24.