Soldier Details:
Surname: Powell
Initials:   W.
Rank:   Lance Corporal
Army No.:  1091
Notes:   MFP. 3/10/1900 he enlisted in the Dorset Regiment, No. 6217, age 18 years, occupation groom, born Spetisbury, Dorset, address 91 Broadlands Road, Hampton Park, Southampton, 27/6/1910 transferred to MFP, 13/7/1913 transferred to MPSC, No. 1550, post 1920 MPSC No. 7717088, 1/10/1921 to discharge time expired. Awarded the Long Service & Good Conduct Medal in Army Order 338 of 1918. Served Home 2/10/1900 to 17/11/1915, BEF 18/11/1915 to 30/12/1918, Home 31/12/1918 to 1/10/1921 to discharge time expired. 19/11/1915 with No. 2 Military Prison, Rouen, 3/4/1917 A/Sgt, 1/8/1917 Sgt, 9/2/1918 A/S/Sgt paid, 27/8/1918 S/Sgt 20/11/1920 S/Sgt paid. 3/2/1918 he married Eliza Emma Lewington, spinster at St James's Southampton, address: 21 Oxford Street, Stafford. Walter Powell.