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Surname: PARSONS
Forename(s): Robert
Place of Birth: Rathmell, Yorkshire
Service No: 40962
Rank: Private
Regiment / Corps / Service: Prince of Wales’s (North Staffordshire Regiment)
Battalion / Unit: 8th (Service) Battalion
Division: 19th (Western) Division
Age: 31
Date of Death: 1918-04-24
Awards: ---
CWGC Grave / Memorial Reference: IX. A. 15.
CWGC Cemetery: BOULOGNE EASTERN CEMETERY
CWGC Memorial: ---
Non-CWGC Burial: ---
Local War Memorial: RATHMELL, YORKSHIRE
Local War Memorial: RIMINGTON, YORKSHIRE
Additional Information:
Robert Parsons was the son of Robert and Alice Parsons, née Frankland. Robert, senior, was born at Rathmell and Alice at Long Preston, Yorkshire. Robert, junior, was the cousin of T/2nd Lieutenant Ernest Parsons (q.v.).
1891 Rathmell, Yorkshire Census: Milgate House - Robert Parsons, aged 4 years, born Giggleswick, Yorkshire, son of Robert and Alice Parsons.
1901 Great Mitton, Yorkshire Census: Mitton Old Hall - Robert Parsons, aged 14 years, born Rathmell, Yorkshire. [Robert was employed by Robert Dibb, Farmer.]
1911 Gargrave, Yorkshire Census: Stainton Hall - Robert Parsons, aged 24 years, born Rathmell, Yorkshire. [Robert was living with Benjamin Knowles, Farmer.]
The British Army Service Record for Robert Parsons exists but may be incomplete.
British Army WW1 Medal Rolls Index Cards: Pte Robert Parsons, 38304, Lincolnshire Regiment & 40962, North Staffordshire Regiment.
Data Source: Craven’s Part in the Great War - original CPGW book entry
View Entry in CPGW BookEntry in West Yorkshire Pioneer Illustrated War Record:
PARSONS, Robert, aged 31, son of late Mr. And Mrs. Robert Parsons, Stones House, [Elslack], died of wounds, 1918.
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Private Robert PARSONS
Regiment / Corps / Service Badge: Prince of Wales’s (North Staffordshire Regiment)
Divisional Sign / Service Insignia: 19th (Western) Division
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Holy Trinity Churchyard, Rathmell
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Holy Trinity Churchyard, Rathmell
Family gravestone - detail of memorial inscription
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03 May 1918
PARSONS – Died in No. 8 Stationary Hospital, Wimereux, France, on April 24th. from wounds, received in France, Private Robert Parsons, third son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Robert Parsons, of Stories House, Elslack, aged 31 years.
10 May 1918
Private Robert Parsons, Elslack
Private Robert Parsons, North Staffs. Regiment, died of wounds four days after admission to No. 8 Stationary Hospital, France, on April 24th. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. R. Parsons, Stores Farm, Elslack, 31 years of age and single. Prior to joining up a year ago, he was a farm servant in the employ of Mr. Capstick of Rimington. He went out to France in August.
25 April 1919
PARSONS – In loving memory of Private Robert Parsons, North Staffordshire Regiment, who died of wounds in France on April 24th, 1918.
From his Sisters and Brothers, Stories House, Elslack.
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10 May 1918
PARSONS – Died of wounds, Pte. Robert Parsons, North Staffordshire Regiment, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. Parsons, of Stories Farm, Elslack, aged 31.
10 May 1918
CRAVEN AND THE WAR
Elslack Soldier Dies of Wounds
Pte. Robert Parsons, North Staffs. Regiment, died of wounds four days after admission at No 8 Stationary Hospital, France, on April 24th. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. R. Parsons, Stories Farm, Elslack, and 31 years of age and single. Prior to joining up a year ago he was a farm servant in the employ of Mr. Capstick, of Rimington. He went out to France in August.
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