Parke George Herbert RAOC Pte 10583812
Personnel Entry
Name Parke George Herbert
Army number 10583812
Rank Private
Decorations
Date of birth 1923
Age 20 at the time of his death.
Unit Joined the Royal Army Ordnance Corps. Attached to Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. Posted to 70 Brigade Workshops. Killed in an accident 31/5/1943.
Company/Battery 70 Brigade Workshops.
Platoon or other sub-unit
Task or role Not yet known.
Joined Brigade
Promotions None as far as is known.
Wounded No.
Prisoner of War No.
Died/Killed in action Killed in a minefield explosion at the Penally Rifle Ranges near Tenby, Pembrokeshire. Some information indicates that the ignored warnings to use only a cleared path.
Home address Son of Herbert and Martha Parke of Norwich Road, Bawdeswell, East Dereham. Buried in Bawdeswell Cemetery, North Side 5.6.
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