William George Narborough, known as Will, was born in the small village of Chicheley, Newport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire in early 1899. He was the younger of twin brothers born to William John Narborough and Martha Elizabeth Ransom, and his siblings were his brother Jack (John) Andrew and a younger sister Amy Catherine. His father was a "Licensed Victualler" and landlord of the Chester Arms in Chicheley at the time of the 1901 Census and he raised his young family there before moving away from the village sometime around 1910. William John Narborough moved his family to Hemel Hempstead in 1911, when he became licensee of the Rose and Crown pub on the High Street in Hemel Hempstead and took up residence nearby, at 25, Bury Rd. William John would eventually acquire the Star Brewery opposite Bury Mill.

William went to Watford to attest on the 10th January, 1917 when he was a month short of his eighteenth birthday and he enlisted with the Bedfordshire Regiment. He then had a short wait as a Reservist, before he was called up two months later for his medical at Whitehall in London on 15th March. Details recorded on his Service Record state that William was 5 feet 4½ inches in height and weighed 131 lbs (9st 5lbs) and he was passed "Category A". He was sent to Harwich for basic training four days later and subsequently moved to Colchester. During his training William qualified as a "Lewis Gunner" in October 1917 and was posted to 1/1 Herts Regiment in preparation for his transfer overseas. He left Dover on the 5th April 1918 and disembarked at Calais the following day before joining his Regiment at a Base Camp.

By the time he arrived in France the war had reached a stage were new recruits were sent to the Regiments most in need of reinforcements regardless of the unit they had originally joined. For William, this meant he was immediately transferred and posted to the North Staffordshire (Prince of Wales’s) Regiment. He went initially to the 1st North Staffs before being sent to the 8th Battalion in May 1918. By the end of the month William was in the Front line at Méry-Prémecy to the west of Reims and it was here that he was killed in action on Monday, 3rd June 1918. William had only been in France for sixty-one days when he was died.

Following his death, a letter was received by his parents from John J. Wallace the Chaplain buried their son, and it was subsequently published in the Hemel Gazette.

He is Remembered with Honour in Courmas British Cemetery, Marne, France, where he is interred in Grave II. H. 6.

He was only 19 years old when he died.

William was eligible for the British War Medal and the Allied Victory Medal.