William Meinke

Rifleman William Josiah Meinke was an English soldier of the British Army who died during the First World War.
He was born in 1894, in Chelsea, the son of German-born tailor Henry and Louisa Meinke (née Wilkins), of Langford. At the time of the 1911 Census, Meinke was working as a porter while living with his family at 35 Camera Square.
Aged 23, Meinke died on 7 April 1917, of wounds received on the Western Front, while serving with the 18th (County of London) Battalion (London Irish Rifles), The London Regiment. He had formerly belonged to the Army Cyclist Corps. His older brother, Percy, a private with the Middlesex Regiment, had died in 1915.
He is buried in Larch Wood (Railway Cutting) Cemetery.
==References==
*Ancestry.co.uk.
*Meinke, William, cwgc.org. Retrieved 29 October 2016.
Category:1894 births
Category:1917 deaths
Category:British military personnel
Category:British Army
Category:British people of German descent
Category:Buried in Belgium
Category:Rifleman