Source: Michael Doyle Their Name Liveth For Evermore: The Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland.
He was the youngest son of Tom and Lois Parker. He was known as Bob. The 1901 census records for 66, Cyril Street, Northampton St. Giles. Tom Parker head of the family and a Bus Driver, born 1848 in Sywell, Northants and his wife Lois, born 1846 in Ticehurst, Sussex, also George W., son, single and a Bricklayer, born 1876, Alice M., single, daughter and a Domestic Servant, born 1886, Arthur J., son, born 1888, Horace E., son, born 1891 and Coppolas H. Parker, grand daughter, born 1891 all four children and the grand child were born in Sywell, Northants. The 1911 census records for Floriana Barracks, Malta. Horace Edgar Parker, single, born 1891 in Sywell, Northants., serving overseas with the 2nd Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment.