Parker Earnest Alfred Sgt 4455418
Personnel Entry
Name Parker Earnest Alfred
Army number 4455418
Rank Sergeant.
Decorations None yet known beyond Service Awards.
Date of birth Not yet known.
Age At the time of his death - not yet known.
Unit Enlisted in The Durham Light Infantry, no enlistment date as yet but his number implies May 1939. Posted to the 9th Battalion? Posted to the 12th Battalion? Transferred to the Black Watch 1/2/1940, and posted to the 1st Tyneside Scottish. Served in Northern France with the B.E.F. Included on the HQ Company Acquittance Roll 10/5/1940. Evacuated via Dunkirk? Served Iceland? Served Normandy? Posted ? Bn Black Watch on the disbanding of 1st Tyneside Scottish. Relegated to the Class Z Army Reserve 2/6/46.
Company/Battery HQ Company.
Platoon or other sub-unit
Task or role Not yet known.
Joined Brigade Not yet known but probably 1/9/1939.
Promotions Listed as Unpaid Lance Corporal on 10/5/1940. Sergeant - date not known.
Wounded Not as far as is known.
Prisoner of War Not as far as is known.
Died/Killed in action Date of death not yet known.
Home address 5, Woodbine Cottages, Barmoor, Ryton-on-Tyne
Source table 1TS
