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Personal data

• Name PARKER
• Initials JW
• First name JOHN WOMERSLEY
• Family Son of Harry Womersley Parker and Annie Parker, of Kirkstall, Leeds.

Military service

• Rank Second Lieutenant
• Medals M C
• Regiment and unit 1st/5th Bn. West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own)
• Division - Brigade 146th Brigade
• Army - Corps - Division 49th Division
• National force B.E.F.
• Attached or transferred from 3rd (reserve) - Bn. - West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own)
• Other data related to military career 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

• Wounded 10 November 1917
• Type of wounds Died of shell wounds to the head, n°17 CCS
• Date of death 13 November 1917
• Died at the age of 21
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XXII - FF - 3A

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