South Warwickshire Family History Society War Memorial Transcription Project

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 The Fallen Men of South Warwickshire - World War One

Private 13600 Arthur PARKER - D Company, 12th Battalion Hampshire Regiment


Died Thursday, December 24, 1914 aged 48

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 Military History

Theatre

France & Flanders

Action/Battle/Other

Died of Heart Failure

Place of Death

Basingstoke 

 

Medals

Appears to have not served abroad

Medal Citation (if app)

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Enlisted Date/Place

Rugby

 

Commonwealth War Graves Page

Basingstoke (Worting Road) Cemetery

SWFHS War Memorial(s)

Priors Marston

Other War Memorial(s)

 

Previous Regiments/Units

Pvt 7239 Royal Warwickshire Regiment

Circumstances Leading to Death (Normally from War Diary)

Arthur's pension card states that he died of heart failure caused by incipient suffocation (comsumption) at the battalion billets in Basingstoke.

 Personal & Family History

Birth Date & Place

Mar Qtr 1866 at Souldern, Oxfordshire 

Baptism Date & Place

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Parents

William and Mary Ann Parker

Wife & Marriage

Hephzibah nee Taylor
4 Apr 1891 at South Banbury

Children

None

 

 

Occupation(s)

  • 1881 - Domestic Page
  • 1891 - Groom
  • 1911 - Farmer

Schools & Colleges

 

Address History

  • 1871 - Souldern
  • 1881 - 65A Baker Street, Marylebone, London
  • 1891 - (Marriage Cert - 4 Apr) Catesby
  • 1891 - (Census - 5 Apr) Brewery Cottage, Fish Street, Banbury (visitor) - address of his new wife Hephzibah
  • 1901 - Not found
  • 1911 - Priors Marston
  • 1914 - Priors Marston

Other Information