Private 43519 Milsom Parr
Regiment/Unit: Machine Gun Corps - 51st Bn.
Theatre of War: France & Flanders
Theatre of War First Served: (1)
Date Entered Therein: 13/02/1915
Previous Reg/Num: Formerly 1808 - South Lancs Reg
Age at death: 21
Date of death: 12th of October 1916
Born: St Helens, Lancs
Resided: St Helens, Lancs
Burial / Memorial: Hebuterne Military Cemetery - I. V. 9.
Family details:
One of three brothers who served and fell in the Great War. George, is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, France, and Stanley, at Manchester Southern Cemetery in the U.K.
Census details:
1901 - 6 years old Milsom is living at 47 Duke Street, St Helens with widowed mother Mary (34) and four siblings: [cas=898]George Parr[/cas] (14), Joseph Austin (10), Gertrude (8), [cas=902]Stanley Parr[/cas] (4). 1911 Census - The family lived at 9 Moxon Street, St Helens. Widowed Ann Parr, aged 46, lived with her four sons [cas=898]George Parr[/cas] (25), Joseph (20), both House Painters, Milson (16), [cas=902]Stanley Parr[/cas] (14), and daughter Mary (18).
Notes:
[note=6]Three Parr Brothers who died In The Great War[/note] [url=lmem.php?lmem=5]Remembered On The Christ Church Memorial[/url]
[note=6]Three Parr Brothers who died In The Great War[/note] [url=lmem.php?lmem=5]Remembered On The Christ Church Memorial[/url]
[pic]imgs/WW1_headstones/M_Parr_MGC.jpg[/pic][caption]The headstone of Private Milsom Parr at Hebuterne Military Cemetery
(Photograph courtesy of Richard Houghton.)[/caption]
