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Lieutenant The Hon. WILLIAM ALASTAIR D. PARNELL

Regiment & Unit/Ship

Grenadier Guards

No. 4 Coy. 2nd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 25 September 1916

Age 22 years old

Buried or commemorated at

GUARDS' CEMETERY, LESBOEUFS

I. C. 1.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Awards Military Cross
  • Additional Info Third Son of the late Major-General Henry Parnell, 4th Baron Congleton, C.B., and of Lady Congleton, of 28, Green St., Park Lane, London.
  • Personal Inscription "THANKS BE TO GOD WHO GIVETH US THE VICTORY THRO' OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST"
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Buried or commemorated at

GUARDS' CEMETERY, LESBOEUFS
Somme France
Number of casualties: 3143
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