PARKES P. W.
Peter Wilson Parkes
Private 17845
2nd Bn., Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regt.)
Peter Wilson Parkes died on Saturday 16th September 1916, age 33, and was commemorated on the THIEPVAL MEMORIAL, Somme, France.
He was born on 10th January 1883 at Forest Side, Sutton-in-Ashfield, to parents James & Elizabeth Ann Parkes. James Parkes was a Potter, and sometime Labourer, who married Elizabeth Anne Wadsworth at St Wilfred, Kirkby-in-Ashfield, in April 1873.
From ‘Soldiers who died in the Great War
1914-19 – Part 49 The Sherwood Foresters’
PETER PARKES. Born Sutton-in-Ashfield,
Enlisted Walsall, Staffs (resides Sutton-in-Ashfield, Notts) 2nd Bn. Sherwood
Foresters (Notts and Derby Regt.). Private 17845 Killed in Action France &
Flanders 16th Sept 1916
Researched by Helen Wilson and Heather Faulkes
