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Serjeant ERNEST PARKES

Service Number: 4916916
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Reconnaissance Corps, R.A.C.

59th Regt.

Date of Death

Died 01 August 1944

Age 26 years old

Buried or commemorated at

FONTENAY-LE-PESNEL WAR CEMETERY, TESSEL

II. D. 20.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Daniel and Lydia Rose Parkes; husband of Marie Yvonne Parkes, of Redcar, Yorkshire.
  • Personal Inscription NO MORNING DAWNS, NO NIGHT RETURNS, BUT THOSE YOU LOVE REMEMBER
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Buried or commemorated at

FONTENAY-LE-PESNEL WAR CEMETERY, TESSEL
Calvados France
Number of casualties: 521
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