Lance Corporal WILLIAM ALEXANDER PARKES
Service Number: WR/25991
Regiment & Unit/Ship
Royal Engineers
340th Railway Construction Coy.
Date of Death
Died 13 October 1918
Age 27 years old
Buried or commemorated at
BRENCHLEY (ALL SAINTS) CHURCHYARD
South boundary, left of gate.
United Kingdom
- Country of Service United Kingdom
- Additional Info Son of William Dunster Parkes and Mary Ann Parkes, of Mount Pleasant, Brenchley; husband of Kathleen Ellen Parkes, of Hawkwell Cottages, Pembury. His brother Thomas Dunster Parkes also fell.
- Personal Inscription WE SHALL MEET ON THAT BEAUTIFUL SHORE LOVING WIFE & SONNIE
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