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{{Personnel
|id=2943
|Surname and forenames=McParlin Robert Dixon Turner
|Army number=4455849
|Rank=Pte
|Date of birth=Born County Durham - date not yet known.
|Age=0
|Unit=Joined The Durham Light Infantry, no enlistment date, but likely to have been early May 1939.  Posted ? 8th Bn DLI.  Posted 11th Bn DLI.  Served BEF.  Listed MISSING 11/5/40, 31/5/40, 20/6/40.  Enlistment Book shows he DIED on 24/5/40.
|Died/Killed in action=15-May-40 (according to CWGC).
|Home address=Resident of County Durham.  Son of Fred and Bella McParlin, husband of Alice McParlin, Houghton-le-Spring.  Buried Plot 2. Row F. Grave 1. Wanquetin Communal Cemetery Extension.
|Source table=11DLI
}}

The DLI Roll of Honour shows the date of death as 20/5/1940.  The War Office casualty list has 5/40 only, with no day shown.  Information on the interment of the casualties at Mercatel and Ficheux will be studied to ascertain which date is likely to be most accurate.