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Private WILLIAM EDWARD PARKES

Service Number: GS/11948
Regiment & Unit/Ship

2nd Dragoons (Royal Scots Greys)

Date of Death

Died 25 October 1915

Age 32 years old

Buried or commemorated at

YORK CEMETERY, YORKSHIRE

163. 19593.

United Kingdom

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William Parkes, of 35, Castle St., Dublin, and the late Elizabeth Parkes; husband of Florence Parkes (nee Hollinshead).
  • Personal Inscription ANGELS TO BECKON ME NEARER MY GOD TO THEE NEARER TO THEE
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