PARKER, Charles James

Carisbrooke Cemetery, Isle of Wight UKCredit: Gary Newman

Rifleman
3rd Battalion
Rifle Brigade

Charles was born 1883 in Headington, Oxfordshire to the late James & Mary PARKER of 30, Stockmoor Street, Oxford. He married  Florence Annie Matilda BUSHNELL in 1908 in Headington, who was living at 51, Caesars Road, Newport around the time of Charles' death on the 27th of December 1918 at age 35.

Charles was a Prison Warder before the war & died on the Island from an unknown cause. The grave also contains the cremated remains of his wife who died in 1972 at the age of 88 in St Paul’s Nursing Home, Stroud Road, Gloucester

Charles is also remembered on the County & Newport Borough War Memorials.

CWGC Casualty Record

Cemetary

Carisbrooke Cemetery

Location

Carisbrooke Cemetery, often referred to as 'Mount Joy' Cemetery is located on Whitcombe Road, Carisbrooke PO30 1DW.  The cemetery was established in 1858 on land purchased by the Carisbrooke & Gatcombe Burial Board, because St. Mary's Churchyard in Carisbrooke was becoming full. The cemetery is now managed by the Bereavement Services Department of the Isle of Wight Council.
The cemetery contains 32 War Graves from the 1st & 2nd World Wars.