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Corporal HORACE PARKES

Service Number: 5252580
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Worcestershire Regiment

1st Bn.

Date of Death

Died 17 February 1945

Age 24 years old

Buried or commemorated at

REICHSWALD FOREST WAR CEMETERY

57. G. 6.

Germany

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Samuel and Maggie Parkes, of Dudley, Worcestershire; husband of Freda May Parkes, of Dudley.
  • Personal Inscription TO LIVE IN THE HEARTS OF THOSE WE LOVE IS NOT TO DIE
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Buried or commemorated at

REICHSWALD FOREST WAR CEMETERY
Nordrhein-Westfalen Germany
Number of casualties: 7671
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