Name
Christopher Parker
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
08/08/1918
23
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
44380
Essex Regiment
9th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
DERNANCOURT COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
VIII. D. 19.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hoddesdon and Rye Park Town Memorial, Hoddesdon,
St Catherine and St Paul’s Church Memorial, Hoddesdon
Pre War
Born on 12 Aug 1896 in and baptised on 17 Sep 1896 in Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire son of William and Elizabeth Parker of 11 Duke Street, Hoddesdon.
Wartime Service
Enlisted on 7 Sep 1914 at Hertford initially 16212 8th Bedfordshires, but was discharged as unlikely to become an effective soldier due to sub-acute appendicitis, adenoids and malnutrition and then re-enlisted 39265 Suffolk Regiment and moved to the Essex Regiment and was killed in action.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox
