Terence Gillett Parker

Rank:CaptainNumber:156136
Ship/Rgn/Sqn No:05th Bn (107th Rgt)
Name of Rgt or Ship:King's Own (Royal Lancaster Rgt)
Died:08/08/1944Age:26
How Died:Killed in Actio
Country of burial:FranceGrave Photo:Yes
Cemetery or Memorial:Tilly-sur-Seulles Cemetery
Town Memorial:Hale
Extra Information:
Born during the December quarter 1917 in the Bucklow R.D. - ref: 8a/203 the
only child of Thomas Robert Gillett & Margaret Parker (nee Murphy).

1921 Census - 56, Leigh Road, Hale.   Son - aged: 3 - born: Hale.   Head of
household - Thomas Robert Gilbert Parker - Married - aged: 48 - occ:
Draughtsman (Printing Machinery) for the Linotype & Macluning Ltd, Printing
Machinery, Broadheath.- born: Preston, Lancashire.   Also - Margaret Parker
- Wife - aged: 39 - born: Widnes, Lancashire.

Attended Stoneyhurst College.  A playing member of Sale RUFC.

His father died in 1930, aged: 57.

1939 National Registration - 56 Leigh Road, Hale     Son - Born on the 13th
October 1913 - Single - occ: Secretary & Cashier To Engineering Firm that
Reconditions Automobile Engines.   Head of household - Margaret Parker -
Born on the 22nd July 1880 - Widowed - occ: Unpaid Domestic Duties.

Married - Dorothea Margaret Golding during the June quarter 1940 in the
Manchester R.D. - ref: 8d/1163.  

Originally joined the South Lancashire Rgt as a Private - went to Sandhurst
Military College and was commissioned in the 5th KOR Rgt.

Death reported in the 1st September 1944 edition of the Sale & Stretford
Guardian. 

CWGC list his widow as living at Middop, Yorkshire.   Local newspaper
states that she was living at Haslingden.    Left a widow and 1 son.

M.I. "Pray for the repose of the soul of a beloved husband and father -
Rest in Peace".

His widow married a William West at Liverpool in 1949.





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