BORN HULL 12/05/1889. ELDEST SON OF GEORGE PARKER (1868-1944) AND MINNIE DAY (1870-1922), OF 35, HALFIELD ROAD, YORK. LIVED IN YORK. HE HAD FIVE BROTHERS AND THREE SISTERS. WORKED AS A CHOCHOLATE MOULDER.
HE MARRIED MAY BUCKLEY, AT YORK, ON 28/10/1911. THEY LIVED AT 27, TABER STREET, HALLFIELD ROAD, YORK (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). THEY HAD TWO CHILDREN.
HE ENLISTED YORK. POSTED TO FRANCE, ON 15/04/1915. SERVED AS AN ACTIVE SERGEANT IN THE 1/5TH WEST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. KIED IN ACTION, ON 25/04/1918, AGED 28. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS WIDOW, MAY.
HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE TYNE COT MEMORIAL, BELGIUM.
HIS BROTHER, ROBERT ARTHUR PARKER, SERVED IN THE MANCHESTER REGIMENT.
First name:
JAMES HENRY
Military Number:
202348
Rank:
Sergeant
Date Died
25/04/1918
Place died:
Tyne Cot Memorial, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Age:
28
27, TABER STREET, HALLFIELD ROAD, LAYERTHORPE, YORK, YORKSHIRE, UK
Place Buried
