Name
Edward Arthur Parrott
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
13/09/1918
31
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
242133
Gloucestershire Regiment
2nd/5th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ROYAL IRISH RIFLES GRAVEYARD, LAVENTIE
Plot III, Row F, Grave 6.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Watford Borough Roll of Honour,
Not listed on the Hertfordshire Regimental Memorial, All Saints Church, Hertford,
Not on the Hertford memorials,
Not on the Ware memorials
Pre War
Son of the late Edward and Harriet Louisa (nee TWEEN) PARROTT of Ware, Herts.
His parents married 7 April 1874 at St Margaret’s, Stanstead Abbots, Herts. Harried died 1892 in Ware aged 41, and was buried 24 July at St Mary the Virgin, Ware; Edward died 2 March 1909 in Ware aged 61.
Edward was born 31 January 1887 in Hertford or Ware, and baptised 25 April 1887 at St Mary’s, Ware. He attended first Ware Infants’ School; then St Mary’s Church of England School, Ware, from 4 March 1895 to 21 September 1900.
On the 1891 Census, aged 4 he lived in Ware, with his parents and four siblings living above his father’s butcher’s shop at 100 High Street, Ware.
On the 1901 Census, a butcher’s helper aged 14, he still lived in Ware, with his widowed father and three siblings. On the 1911 Census, of no occupation, at 11 Kibes Lane as a lodger after his parents had both died.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Hertford, and was formerly Private 3120 1st Battalion Hertfordshire Regiment.
He was entitled to the Victory and British War medals, and was killed in action.
Additional Information
His headstone inscription reads: "REST AFTER WEARINESS SWEET REST AT LAST".
Unfortunately, Edward’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), Malcolm Lennox, Jonty Wild
