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Detail victim
Personal data
- Son of Harry Womersley Parker and Annie Parker, of Kirkstall, Leeds.
Military service
- Second Lieutenant
- M C
- 1st/5th Bn. West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own)
- 3rd (reserve) - Bn. - West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own)
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M C ' For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to
duty. When the barrage had got far ahead
of the attacking troops on account of the bad
state of the ground, he took command of
men of different battalions and organised a
determined attack on two '' pill-boxes''
which were holding up the advance. He got
within thirty yards in spite of heavy fire.
Being then stopped by wire, he consolidated
the poeition, and carried out a valuable reconnaissance.' (LG 19/04/1918)
Death
- 10 November 1917
- Died of shell wounds to the head, n°17 CCS
- 21
- XXII - FF - 3A
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