Name
Wilfred Horsley Parker
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
09/05/1915
33
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Second Lieutenant
Royal Munster Fusiliers
2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LE TOURET MEMORIAL
Panel 43 and 44.
France
Headstone Inscription
NA
UK & Other Memorials
St Peter’s Church Memorial, Bushey Heath
Pre War
Wilfred Horsley Parker, born in Hampstead in 1882, was the fourth of eight children of Frank Rowley Parker, a solicitor, and his wife, Catharine. In 1891 the family were living in Harrow, Middlesex, where they employed four servants.
Wilfred was educated at Marlborough College. His father died in 1901. In 1911 he was living with his mother, who had private means, and his three sisters at ‘The Garth’, High Street, Stanmore, Middlesex, and was working as a land surveyor.
Wartime Service
He served as a Second Lieutenant in the Royal Munster Fusiliers and died on 9 May 1915, aged 33. He is remembered with honour at the Le Touret Memorial.
His younger brother, Corporal Charles Rowley Parker, died of wounds on 10 July 1915. Their mother subsequently moved to ‘Franshams’, Heathbourne Road, Bushey Heath.
Additional Information
After his death he was recorded as the son of Catherine Parker, of "Franshams", Bushey Heath, Watford, Herts, and the late Frank Rowley Parker. Also see ‘Additional Information’ provided with kind permission of Bushey First World War Commemoration Project
Acknowledgments
Dianne Payne - www.busheyworldwarone.org.uk, Jonty Wild
