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{{personnel
|Surname and forenames=Parker Richard
|Army number=3608065
|Rank=Gunner.
|Decorations=None yet known.
|Date of birth=21/9/1923.
|Age=20 at the time of his death.
|Unit=Enlisted in the Border Regiment.  Transferred to the Royal Artillery.  Posted to the 55th Anti-Tank Regiment.  KILLED in ACTION 8/8/1944.
|Company/Battery=219 Battery.
|Platoon or other sub-unit=H Troop.
|Task or role=Gunner.
|Joined Brigade=Not yet known exactly.
|Promotions=None as far as is known.
|Wounded=Not as far as is known.
|Prisoner of War=Not as far as is known.
|Died/Killed in action=KILLED in ACTION 8/8/1944.  Interred initially at St Honorine de Chardonnerette, map reference 096708, then re-buried on 18/7/1945 in Grave I. D. 25. Ranville War Cemetery.  No headstone inscription.
|Home address=No family information in CWGC records.  Details are awaited from family.
|Image Name=Gunner_Parker_CWGC_Headstone.JPG
|Image Title=CWGC Headstone - Gunner Richard Parker
}}

A photograph of Gunner Parker's temporary grave marker is set out below:-

[Gunner_Parker_Initial_grave_marker.jpg|600px|thumb|centre|Temporary grave marker]