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{{Personnel
|Surname and forenames=Parkinson David Fortune
|Army number=249220
|Rank=Lt
|Date of birth=Research indicates he was born in Halifax in 1921 - Mother's maiden name Fortune.
|Age=23 at the time of his death.
|Unit=Joined the Gloucester Regiment - granted an Emergency Commission as a 2/Lt 17/10/1942.  Served Normandy.  Attached to The Durham Light Infantry 6/7/1944, posted to the 11th Battalion DLI.  With the Battalion on disbandment 26/8/1944.  Attached 2nd Bn East Yorkshire Regiment on the disbandment of the 11th Battalion.  KILLED in ACTION 27/2/1945 with 2nd Bn East Yorkshires.
|Company/Battery=D.
|Task or role=Platoon Commander.
|Joined Brigade=06-Jul-44.
|Promotions=W/S Lt 17/4/1943.
|Died/Killed in action=27-Feb-45.
|Home address=No further family information as yet.  Resident of Bristol at the time of his death.  Buried Grave 48. G. 7. Reichswald Forest War Cemetery.
|Source table=11DLI
}}