Private WILLIAM EDWARD PARKES
Service Number: GS/11948
Regiment & Unit/Ship
2nd Dragoons (Royal Scots Greys)
Date of Death
Died 25 October 1915
Age 32 years old
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- Country of Service United Kingdom
- Additional Info Son of William Parkes, of 35, Castle St., Dublin, and the late Elizabeth Parkes; husband of Florence Parkes (nee Hollinshead).
- Personal Inscription ANGELS TO BECKON ME NEARER MY GOD TO THEE NEARER TO THEE
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