PARKER, Francis George

Francis was born 1912 in Birmingham to Charles James & Ethel Rebecca (nee BUSHNELL) PARKER. The 1938 Roll had him living at 61 Caesars Road in Newport. Francis was married to Annie, who was living in Sheffield at the time of his death.

Francis, aged 29, died from wounds he had received in France in the British Military Hospital at Mhow, India on the 14th of February 1942. He is buried in the Kirkee War Cemetery in India beneath a Commission Headstone, bearing the Family Inscription: “MEMORIES ARE ALL WE HAVE LEFT OF A DEAR HUSBAND & FATHER, ONE OF THE BEST”, alongside 1,667 of his Second World War comrades.

Francis is also remembered on the Newport Borough War Memorial.