Name
Edward Ernest Parker
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
07/07/1917
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Rifleman
653081
London Regiment (First Surrey Rifles)
21st (County of London) Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
CHESTER FARM CEMETERY
III. D. 18.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
St Edmunds College Memorial, Old Hall Green
Biography
The following text was transcribed from the The Edmundian (1814-1819) – The contemporary magazine of St Edmund’s College:
Edward Parker was one of those thousands who thought never to become soldiers. He was the second son of Francis and Evelyn Parker of Greenwich. He was a student here from May 1890 to July 1897. When the war broke out he was a Chartered Accountant preparing for his third and final examination, In 1910 he married Theresa Incledon of Blackheath. He enlisted under the Derby scheme, was called up in 1916, beginning his service in the 1st Surrey Rifles, whence he was transferred later to the 1/21st London Regiment. He left England for France in December of last year. On July the 7th of this year he was with a working party in the Ypres sector, and was killed by a shell. The loss to his young wife and three infant children is especially terrible. We who knew "Teddy" so well ask her and them, as well as his mother, to accept our deepest sympathy. Mass was offered for him at the College on receipt of the news of his death.
Acknowledgments
Jonty Wild, Di Vanderson, The Edmundian (1814-1819) – The contemporary magazine of St Edmund’s College
