Name
Bertie Parker
1884
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
23/04/1917
33
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
33082
Bedfordshire Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ARRAS MEMORIAL
Bay 5.
France
Headstone Inscription
He has no Headstone. He is commemorated on the Arras Memorial to the missing in France.
UK & Other Memorials
Cheshunt Town Memorial, Church of St Mary the Virgin Memorial Cheshunt, Not on the Bishops Stortford Memorial
Pre War
Bertie Parker was born in 1884, in Bishops Stortford, Hertfordshire, son of William Parker a, Shepherd and Elizabeth Parker. One of twelve children although four died in infancy.
1891 Census records Bertie aged 6, at school, living with his parents, five brothers and two sister in Carters lane, Bishops Stortford, Herts. (Brother Thomas and sister Lydia were twins born in 1879).
His father William died in late 1894, aged 48, in Bishops Stortford, Herts.
1901 Census, Bertis (16) had left school and was working at the Royal Gunpowder Factor, Waltham Abbey, in the Cordite Department, living with his widowed mother, Brothers Francis (30), Alfred (25) and sister Edith (14) at, 4 Myrtle Cottages, Cromwell Avenue, Cheshunt, Herts. The family also had a Boarder Charles Wedlock. On the night of the Census, they had two visitors Emily and Laura Cloughton.
1911 Census, Bertie (26) is now employed as a Nurseryman, living with his widowed mother at, 3 Stockwell Lane, Cheshunt, Herts, They had a Boarder Harry Phillips, and a Visitor Florence Golding on the night of the Census.
Wartime Service
Bertie enlisted at Bedford, posted to the Bedfordshire Regiment with the service number 33082. On completion of his training, he saw action on the Western Front.
He was Killed in Action on 23rd April 1917, during the Attack on La Coulotte, part of the Battles of Arras (Battle of Arras 6th April – 16th June 1917). He has no known grave; he is commemorated on the Arras Memorial in France to the missing.
Additional Information
His effects of £1-00-05, pay owing and his war gratuity of £3, went to his mother Elizabeth.
His elder Brother Gunner 5012 Thomas Parker of the Royal Field Artillery was Killed in Action on 7th October 1918, Thomas a regular soldier arrived in France on 16th August 1914.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Jonty Wild
