Name
Samuel John Parker
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
16/06/1917
36
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Gunner
139404
Royal Garrison Artillery
353rd Siege Battery
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BERKS CEMETERY EXTENSION
II. D. 14.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Stained Glass Window, Hitchin Boys Grammar School,
St Mary's Church Roll of Honour (Book), Hitchin
Pre War
Husband of Florence Maud Parker, of 44, Merivale Rd., Harrow, Middx.
He attended Hitchin Grammar School from 1892 to 1896.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Harrow in Middlesex as a Gunner with the Regimental Number 139404.
He was killed in action in Belgium. while a Signaller with 353 Siege Battery Royal Artillery. The Battery was equipped with 6" howitzers and was part of 36 Brigade and attached to the 3rd Australian Division in the 2nd Anzac Corps at the Battle of Messines. The Anzacs were on the right of the attack in the vicinity of Ploegsteert Wood south west of Warneton. This was at the end of the main battle.
He was buried in Plot 2, Row D, Grave 14 in the Berkshire Comer Cemetery Extension, Rosenberg Chateau, Ploegsteert, Comines-Warneton, Hainaut, Belgium.
Additional Information
His gravestone bears the private inscription "Faithful unto death".
Samuel is also commemorated on a family headstone in Hitchin Cemetery. The inscription reads:
SAMUEL JOHN PARKER. BORN 8TH MARCH 1881,
KILLED IN ACTION IN BELGIUM 16TH JUNE 1917.
KILLED IN ACTION IN BELGIUM 16TH JUNE 1917.
Acknowledgments
David C Baines, Jonty Wild
