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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

  • 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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