View source for Hope Edward Parkin Gunner 918162

{{personnel
|Surname and forenames=Hope Edward Parkin
|Army number=918162
|Rank=Gunner
|Decorations=None known beyond Service Awards.
|Date of birth=Not yet known.
|Unit=Enlisted in the Royal Artillery 11/5/1939.  Posted to the 125th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery.   Underwent Basic Training.  Equipment Repairer's Course, Catterick, 28/3/1940.  Posted to the 125th Anti-Tank Regiment 31/8/1940 on the conversion of the Unit from Field to Anti-Tank.  Y List 23/9/1941.  Posted to the Royal Artillery Depot 28/11/1941.  Posted to HQ Airborne Division 30/12/1941.  HQ Airborne Division Employment Platoon 17/11/1942.  Posted overseas 16/5/1943.  Served North Africa.  Posted X List II North Africa 8/8/1943.  Posted X List (4) North Africa 3/10/1943.  Posted X List (1) North Africa 1/4/1944.  Posted X List II  Central Mediterranean Forces 2/11/1944.  Posted X List I Central Mediterranean Forces 24/11/1944.  Transferred to the Royal Army Ordnance Corps 8/9/1945.
|Company/Battery=Not yet known.
|Task or role=Probably Fitter/Repairer.
|Promotions=Not yet known.
|Wounded=Not so far as is known.
|Prisoner of War=Not so far as is known.
|Died/Killed in action=Date of death not yet known.
|Home address=No family details as yet.
}}


Some of the above information was extracted from the soldier's Tracer Card, held on Ancestry.co.uk