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Military service
Service number:
55092
Age:
29
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)
Division:
19th Bn.
Birth:
January 27, 1887
Death:
September 16, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
I. N. 5.
Additional information
Son of George Anthony and Edith Parkin, of The Pharmacy, Borrowash, Derbyshire.
Digital gallery of Private George Richard Parkin
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War Memorial
This is the Ockbrook and Borrowash War Memorial in Derbyshire on which George Parkin's name is commemorated. -
Inscription
George Parkin who was born in York, enlisted on 10th November 1914 at Toronto having previously served with the Queen's Own Rifles. He was employed as a clerk. His brother, George Frederick Parkin, served as a 2nd Lieut. in the West Yorks Regt., and was also killed in action on 9th April 1917, aged 21. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram December 1914. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram December 1914. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Private George Richard Parkin
Digital gallery of
Private George Richard Parkin
Digital gallery of
Private George Richard Parkin
Digital gallery of
Private George Richard Parkin
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 145 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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