Name
Frank Campion Parker
1892
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
22/10/1918
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
29471
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Searched but not found
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
Headstone Inscription
Searched but not found.
UK & Other Memorials
Hoddesdon and Rye Park Town Memorial, Hoddesdon, St Catherine and St Paul’s Church Memorial, Hoddesdon, Not on the Broxbourne Memorial
Pre War
Frank Campion PARKER was born in Broxbourne, Hertfordshire, in 1892, son of John Campion Parker a Domestic Gardener and Sarah Parker (nee Jones). The youngest of seven children. His mother Sarah Parker, died in 1896, aged 42.
1901 Census records Frank aged 9, living with his widowed father, sister Amy (13) and brother Cecil (11), at The Gardeners Lodge, Broxbournebury Mansion, Park Lane, Broxbourne, Herts. They have a liv-in housekeeper widow Rosa Jones.
1911 Census records Frank (19), working as a Gardeners Assistant, living with his widowed father and sister Amy, at The Gardens, High Leigh, Hoddesdon, Herts.
Wartime Service
We believe Frank served with the 12th Battalion, East Surrey Regiment, issued with the service number 29471, believed to have been killed in Action on 22nd October 1918. This information was found on his and his brother Cecil’s joint Pension Record Card. No Pension was recorded as being awarded to his father. His fathers address on the Pension Record Card was, The Gardens, Woodcock Lodge, Little Berkhamsted, Herts.
No military records or CWGC records were found for Frank Campion Parker, other than the Pension Record card.
Additional Information
His elder brother Private 265699 Cecil Henry Parker, of the 1st Battalion, Hertfordshire Regiment, was Killed in Action on 23rd July 1916.
No CWGC record for a Private 29471 Frank Campion Parker was found.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Jonty Wild
