PARKER, Alfred
| Service Number: | 2032 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Sergeant |
| Last Unit: | 44th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, England, date not yet discovered |
| Home Town: | Bayswater, Bayswater, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | Killed in Action, France, 4 July 1918, age not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Villers-Bretonneux Military Cemetery Grave III. C. 1. Personal Inscription IN LOVING MEMORY FROM WIFE & SON, Villers-Bretonneux Military Cemetery, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Bayswater War Memorial, Gosnells Road Board HR, Gosnells War Memorial, Gosnells Ward Roll of Honor |
World War 1 Service
| 10 Oct 1916: | Involvement Private, 2032, 44th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '18' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Suffolk embarkation_ship_number: A23 public_note: '' | |
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| 10 Oct 1916: | Embarked Private, 2032, 44th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Suffolk, Fremantle | |
| 4 Jul 1918: | Involvement Sergeant, 2032, 44th Infantry Battalion, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 2032 awm_unit: 44th Australian Infantry Battalion awm_rank: Sergeant awm_died_date: 1918-07-04 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
He was 33 and the son of Robert and Jane Parker; husband of S. H. Milton (formerly Parker), of 78, South St., Hyde Park, Doncaster, Yorks, England.
He is remembered on the Eastwood - Nottingham Road War Memorial along with fellow Australian soldier Sergeant Henry Dodson Noon who fell at Mouquet Farm on the Somme on 31st August 1916 and who is commemorated on the Villers Bretonneux Memorial on the Somme.
Eastwood - St Mary's Church War MemoriaL
Church Street, Eastwood NG16 3BS. Lost memorial. A number of churches have been built on this site. The church which was built in 1858 was destroyed by fire (arson) on 5 March 1963; only the tower surviving.
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