George Graham PARKS

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PARKS, George Graham

Service Number:	159
Enlisted:	2 February 1915, Keswick, South Australia
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	27th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Kooringa, South Australia, 23 December 1893
Home Town:	Port Pirie, Port Pirie City and Dists, South Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Carpenter
Died:	Enteric Fever, Egypt, 20 October 1915, aged 21 years
Cemetery:	Alexandria (Chatby) Military and War Memorial Cemetery, Egypt
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Port Pirie Fathers of Sailors and Soldiers Association Port Pirie District Roll of Honor WW1

World War 1 Service

2 Feb 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 159, Keswick, South Australia
31 May 1915:	Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 159, 27th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Geelong, Adelaide
31 May 1915:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 159, 27th Infantry Battalion, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '15' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Geelong embarkation_ship_number: A2 public_note: ''
4 Sep 1915:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 159, 27th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli
Date unknown:	Involvement 159, 27th Infantry Battalion

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Biography contributed

Surname appears on Embarkation roll (www.awm.gov.au) as PARKES - The E is crossed out to make it PARKS on his Attestation Paper (recordsearch.naa.gov.au)

SA-BDM Birth Record shows Surname to be PARKS

George Parks was a member of the 27th Battalion which had embarked from Port Adelaide on 31 May 1915 bound for Egypt. The Battalion concluded its training and was warned for deployment to ANZAC, and was landed in a number of drafts on and around 12 September, a month after the disastrous 'August Battles'.

By this time disease began taking a greater toll of the ANZACs than enemy action. Both sides had fought each other to a stand-still with neither being able to achieve a decisive break-through. Poor sanitation, thousands of unburied bodies and summer heat all provided the ingredients of disease. Enteric Fever (typhoid) seemed to be the main affliction and a case mean evacuation to Lemnos or to Egypt. Some extreme cases were sent to the UK via Malta or even back to Australia.

George Parks became one of these casualties, and like many he succumbed to the effects of the illness that was ravaging ANZAC. He had been evacuated to Egypt but died in hospital on 20 October 1915.

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