BORN LEEDS 1894. EIGHTH CHILD AND SEVENTH SON OF GEORGE AND HARRIET R PARKER, OF HEADINGLEY, LEEDS. HE HAD EIGHT BROTHERS AND TWO SISTERS.
HE MOVED TO HULL. HE WORKED AS A SAW MILL MACHINIST AT 6, WOODS LANE, HULL (1911 CENSUS)
ENGAGED TO MISS EDGAR, AT 9 PERCY’S AVENUE, RUGBY STREET, HULL.
HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED WITH THE 6TH EAST YORKSHIRE PIONEERS. PROMOTED TOLANCE CORPORAL. LEFT FOR THE DARDENELLES, ON 14/07/1915. KILLED IN ACTION, AT GALLIPOLI, ON 09/08/1915, AGED 21. HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE HELES MEMORIAL TO THE MISSING THERE.
HARRY’S DEATH DETAILS WERE REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 14/09/1915. HIS PHOTOGRAPH APPEARED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON 20/09/1915. *
First name:
HARRY
Regiment:
Military Number:
10640
Rank:
Lance Corporal
Date Died
09/08/1915
Place died:
Helles Memorial, Gallipoli, Turkey
Age:
21
9, PERCY'S AVENUE, RUGBY STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, United Kingdom
