Name
Alfred Parman
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
10/05/1915
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Rifleman
10162
King's Royal Rifle Corps
4th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL
Panel 51 and 53.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Watford memorials
Pre War
Son of Annie Eliza (nee LANE) and the late Thomas George PARMAN.
His parents married 1880 in the Bethnal Green, London, district. Thomas died 1914 aged 52; Annie died 1929 aged 69; both in the Shoreditch, London, district.
Alfred was born 1892 in St Luke’s, London, and resided in Watford.
On the 1901 Census, aged 8 he lived in Shoreditch, with his parents and three siblings. On the 1911 Census, a Private in the 6th Battalion K.R.R.C. aged 18, he was stationed in Woolwich, London.
Officially recorded as born in St Luke's, London and was living in Watford when he enlisted in Stratford, Essex.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Stratford, London; was entitled to the Victory, British War and 1914-15 Star medals, his qualifying date being 20 December 1914, and was killed in action.
Additional Information
Unfortunately, Alfred’s Service Record appears to be one that did not survive the World War Two bombing.
Acknowledgments
Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)
