16871 Private William Alfred Inchley of the 2nd Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment was killed in action on the 28th October 1915.
William was born in Middleton, Northants and he enlisted at Kettering in the second half of December 1914. His medal index card notes that he arrived in France on the 25th August 1915 and so he'd barely been overseas for two months when he was killed. He is buried in X Farm Cemetery at La Chapelle D'Armentieres in France.
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission gives the barest detail about this man and records him simply as W A Inchley. He is possibly the same Alfred William Inchley whose birth was registered in the Kettering district of Northamptonshire in the June quarter of 1891, but I have been unable to find convincing matches for both William Alfred and Alfred William on census returns.
At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.
Sources:
Ancestry.co.uk (MIC, Birth index)
Army Ancestry
Army Service Numbers 1881-1918
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
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