Corporal JOHN WILLIAM PARKER



Rank | Corporal |
Forenames | JOHN WILLIAM |
Surname | PARKER |
Initials | J W |
Place of Birth | Unknown |
Date of Birth | Unknown |
Date of Death | Wednesday, 07 June 1944 |
Age | 34 |
Nationality |
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Residence or Entered Service From | DURHAM, COUNTY DURHAM, UNITED KINGDOM |
Service Number | 3651896 | Force |
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Service/Corps/Regiment |
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Unit / Ship / Battalion / Squadron | 13 Parachute Battalion (6th Airborne Division) |
Military Honours and Awards | |
Place of Burial/Commemoration |
RANVILLE CHURCHYARD
Roll of honour |
Grave/Memorial Location | Grave 24. |
Previous Place(s) of Burial | Unknown |
Epitaph | |
Family Details | SON OF WILLIAM AND ANNIE PARKER; HUSBAND OF DOROTHY L. PARKER, OF TOTTON, HAMPSHIRE. |
Additional Information
Corporal JOHN WILLIAM PARKER, seving with 'C' Company, 13 Parachute Battalion, died on the 7th June 1944, 1 month before his daughter was born in the United Kingdom.
The circumstance of his death were recalled by his his friend Private Ronald Minnery, who was serving with the Intelligence Platoon with 13 Parachute Battalion:
The day after D-Day my friend Corporal John Parker, 'C' Company, was killed. He was in a slit trench by a wall at the crossroads and a piece of shrapnel from a mortar attack hit him in the head, it went straight through his helmet.1
Corporal JOHN WILLIAM PARKER was buried in Ranville Churchyard, where he rest today alongside 45 other identified men who were killed. Ranville Church itself was used as a temporary aid post on D-Day, and later an Advanced Dressing Station, by 225 Parachute Field Ambulance while 13 Parachute battalion battled to take liberate and hold the village.2
References |
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1. | from 13 - Lucky For Some The History of the 13th(Lancashire) Parachute Battalion, p.173. Privately published in 2013, first edition, by Andrew Woolhouse. |
2. | Pegasus Bridge & Horsa Bridge. pp.148-151. Published by Pen & Sword Books Ltd 1999 - 2011, 4th edition, by Carl Shilleto. |
3. | Photograph kindly provided by Jason Palmer, grandson of Corporal John William Parker. |
Acknowledgements and Credits |
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Source of original data: | Commonwealth War Graves Commission |
Headstone photograph: | Carl Shilleto |
Cross marker photograph: | |
Individual photograph: | Jason Palmer, grandson of Corporal John William Parker. |
Additional photographs provided by: | |
Additional information provided by: | Carl Shilleto, Andrew Woolhouse & Jason Palmer, grandson of Corporal John William Parker. |
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