Corporal Percy Parsons, 40387

  • Batt - 8
  • Unit - Leicestershire Regiment
  • Section -
  • Date of Birth -
  • Died - 06/10/1917
  • Age - 25

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Source: Michael Doyle Their Name Liveth For Evermore: The Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland.
He was the son of Alfred Henry and Mary Ann Parsons. The War Diary entry for the period of the 5th to the 6th October 1917 records. RAILWAY DUG OUTS, ZILLEBEKE. At 6.00pm on the 5th October the 8th/9th LEICESTERSHIRE REGT moved from SCOTTISH WOOD CAMP to RAILWAY DUG OUTS on the north side of the railway embankment in I.21.d. (Reference ZILLEBEKE 1/10000). The 7th LEICESTERSHIRE REGT were in dug outs on the west side of ZILLEBEKE LAKE and the 6th LEICESTERSHIRE REGT in support at CLAPHAM JUNCTION.

Leicestershire Project Findings
  • Conflict - World War I
  • Cause of death - KILLED IN ACTION
  • Place of death - Belgium
  • Burial Place - Buttes New British Cemetery, Polygon Wood, XXVII. A. 14., Belgium
  • Birth Place - Humberstone, Leicester
  • Other Memorials - St Barnabas' Church WW1 Reredos
Research from Michael Doyle's Their Name Liveth For Evermore
  • Unit - Leicestershire Regiment
  • Cause of death - KILLED IN ACTION
  • Burial Commemoration - Buttes New British Cem., Polygon Wood, Zonnebeke, Belgium
  • Born - Humberstone, Leicester
  • Enlisted - Leicester
  • Place of Residence - 53a Overton Road, Leicester, Leicestershire, England
  • Memorial - ST. BARNABAS'S CHURCH, LEICESTER

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