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Surname: PARKER
Forename(s): Walter Bibby
Place of Birth: Settle, Yorkshire
Service No: 62120
Rank: Sapper
Regiment / Corps / Service: Royal Engineers
Battalion / Unit: 21st Division Signals Coy
Division: 21st Division
Age: 31
Date of Death: 1918-10-08
Awards: ---
CWGC Grave / Memorial Reference: IV. A. 19.
CWGC Cemetery: GOUZEAUCOURT NEW BRITISH CEMETERY
CWGC Memorial: ---
Non-CWGC Burial: ---
Local War Memorial(s): Not Listed (View Names Not Listed on a Local War Memorial)
Additional Information:
Walter Bibby Parker was the son of Joseph and Jane Parker, formerly Pickup, née Bibby. Joseph was born at Giggleswick and Jane at Mytton, Yorkshire.
1891 Great Harwood, Lancashire Census: 50, St. Edmund Street - Walter Parker, aged 4 years, born Settle, Yorkshire, son of Joseph and Jane Parker.
1901 Blackpool, Lancashire Census: 121, Warbreck Road (College) - Walter B. Parker, aged 14 years, born Settle, Yorkshire. Boarder.
1911 Clitheroe, Lancashire Census: 10, Market Place - Walter Bibby Parker, aged 24 years, born Settle, Yorkshire, son of Jane Parker, widow.
The British Army Service Record for Walter Bibby Parker exists but may be incomplete.
British Army WW1 Medal Rolls Index Cards: Spr Walter B. Parker, 62120, Royal Engineers. Theatre of War first served in: (1) France. Date of entry therein: 10 May 1915.
Walter is commemorated in the Memorial Books of the Post Office Fellowship of Remembrance and on Clitheroe War Memorial.
Data Source: Soldiers Died in the Great War 1914-19 Records
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Entry in West Yorkshire Pioneer Illustrated War Record: ---
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