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Pte. Charles Pamphlett
British Army London Regiment
from:Old Kent Road, Bermondsey
Charles Pamphlett was my Grandfather. He fought on the Somme where he was wounded, he had his middle finger blown off and half his ring finger too. He never spoke about the war to my Father, all he would ever say was that he was one of the lucky ones.
Sgt. Archibald Stanley Pamplin
British Army 7th Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment
from:West Ham, London
(d.8th August 1915)
Pte. Horace Pankhurst
British Army 1/8th (Leeds Rifles) Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment
from:Heed Place, Leeds
(d.16th Jul 1916)
My grandfather Horace Pankhurst died on the 16th July 1916, whilst serving with the Leeds Rifles, 1/8th Battallion, he was killed at Leipzig Redoubt near Johnsons Post. He had no known grave and his name is engraved on the Thiepval memorial, Rifleman Horace Pankhurst aged 31. Would anybody be able to tell me when he enlisted?
RfM. Horace Pankhurst
British Army 8th Btn. West Yorkshire Regiment
(d.16th July 1916)
Rifleman Horace Pankhurst 1/8th Batt Leeds Rifles, died of wounds at Leipzig Redought on 16th July 1916. That's where the battalion was at this time, HQ was Johnsons Post at Theipval on the Somme, held in reserve but was brought up to the line in support.
Pte. Horace Pankhurst
British Army 1/8th (Leeds Rifles) Btn. West Yorkshire Regiment
(d.16th Jul 1916)
Pte. George Pannell
British Army att. 116 Siege Battery Amm Col. Army Service Corps
from:Liss, Hampshire
(d.26th May 1918)
George Pannell joined the Army Service Corp (Motor Transport) as a driver on 6th of June 1915. He was attached to 116th Siege Battery (Ammunition Column), Royal Garrison Artillery and was last seen during heavy hostile fire and sudden German Advance on night of 26th/27th of May 1918. He was posted missing, presumed killed. George is remembered on Tyne Cot Memorial in Belgium.
Pte. Harry Pannell
British Army 7th Btn. West Surrey (Queen's) Regiment
from:Liss, Hampshire UK
Pte. William Pannell
British Army Royal Sussex Regiment
(d.30th Jun 1916)
One Sunday when trying to entertain my wife's elderly grandfather, who spoke a lot of WW2, we asked whether he would like to look at the CWGC website to look for any relatives. To our great surprise we found a member of our family Pte. William Pannell who served with the Royal Sussex Regiment and died on the 30th June 1916. Then shockingly we found two more of his brothers who also died on the same day! This was in the battle of the Boars Head when many Sussex lads died, it was reported that "this was the day Sussex died"! This was the worst loss of life in one family, that we are aware of.
We have no information on any of these boys, pictures etc, we don't even know the ages of two of them.
Pte. Cyril Panter
British Army 2nd Btn. Bedfordshire Regiment
(d.23rd Oct 1918)
Pte. Herbert Panter
British Army 55th Btn. Machine Gun Corps
from:Desborough
(d.9th Apr 1918)
Herbert Panter is remembered on the Loos Memorial.
Sgt. George Pantling
British Army 3rd Btn. London Regiment
from:London
George Pantling served with the 3rd Btn. London Rifles and went on to serve in the Second World War.
Pte. Edward William Parckar
British Army 1/8th Btn. Middlesex Regiment
from:Hounslow, Middlesex
My great-grandfather, Edward Parckar, was 25 years old when he voluntarily landed in Le Havre, France on 8th March of 1915 with the 1/8th Battalion of the Middlesex Regiment.
Edward was badly gassed on the 24th of May 1915 during the second battle of Ypres in Belgium. He was wounded on three separate occasions during his service with the 8th Regiment, including a severe gunshot wound to the knee. His last wound in action was in November 1918 as the war was coming to a close.
Edward was one of the very few original men of the 1/8th Battalion to have survived the War. Unfortunately, he was still suffering from the effects of gas poisoning, which eventually caused his lungs to fail in 1925, at the age of 35, leaving behind a wife and 4 small children.
I have attached a photo of Edward (on far right). If anyone knows who the other Army personnel are, I would love to know. My understanding from a cousin is that the photo was taken while billeted in France.
Cpl. Frank Arundel Pardew
British Army 12th (The Rangers) Btn. London Regiment
from:Plymouth, Devon
(d.9th Sep1918)
Drummer Walter Pardoe
British Army 2nd Btn. Worcestershire Regiment
from:Stourbridge
(d.20th October 1917)
Pte. Edward Parfait
British Army 17th (Poplar and Stepney Rifles) Btn. London Regiment
from:Mile End, London
My uncle, Edward Parfait, a tailor's machinist, was the eldest son of Wilhelm Parfait born June Quarter 1894 Mile End Middlesex. He suffered mustard gas poisoning and died on 22nd of May 1924 from malignant endocarditis.
2nd Lt. E. G. Parfitt
British Army 173rd Brigade Royal Field Artillery
Pte. Frederick Parfitt
British Army 2nd Btn. Sherwood Foresters
from:Sheffield
My grandfather, Frederick Parfitt, died in 1965, 5 years before I was born. According to my father he didn't talk very much about his time in WW1, I guess it's the same for many soldiers who served in the Great War. As I never knew him he has always been a bit of a mystery so I’ve spent some time researching his family tree and war record.
Frederick enlisted at Sheffield into the Nottingham and Derbyshire Regiment. His father, also called Frederick served in the Imperial Yeomanry and is listed in the 1901 census at the Military Base in Aldershot.
- Regular Army as a boy 16.03.09
- Posted to 2nd Battalion 23.03.09
- Appointed Private at age 18 07.02.13
- Reported Missing 20.10.14
- Confirmed Prisoner of War in Germany 20.10.14
- Repatriated 28.11.18
- Posted to Depot 28.11.18
- Posted to 3rd Battalion Sherwood Foresters 05.07.19
- Appointed Unpaid Lance Corporal 08.10.19
- Posted to 1st Battalion 18.10.19
- Posted to Depot 02.02.20
- Appointed Paid Lance Corporal 27.08.20
- Transferred to Royal Tank Corps 07.09.20
- Posted to Workshop Training Battalion 07.09.20
- Promoted to Sergeant Unknown
- Discharged – Services no longer required 15.09.23
Service as a boy: 16.03.09-06.02.13, Service with the Colours: 07.02.13-15.09.23, Overseas Service: British Expeditionary Force (France) 08.09.14-19.10.14, Prisoner of War from 20.10.14-27.11.18.
After looking into the 2nd Battalion Sherwood Foresters war diaries it appears that Frederick’s capture by the Germans on 20.10.14 was during the first battle of Ypres where the battalion was completely destroyed at the retreat at Ennetieres on the French/Belgian border.
The photos of Frederick include a couple taken whilst in a POW camp. I have no idea where he was held captive, are there any records held? I feel quite fortunate that Frederick was captured just as WW1 had begun and spent the whole war as a prisoner away from the horrors of warfare that so many soldiers encountered until 1918.
If anyone has any information about the where the POWs from the 2nd Battalion would have been taken it would be gratefully received. I would also welcome any information on what life was like in the Royal Tank Corps after the war finished.
Rfmn. Frederick William Parfitt
British Army 12th Btn. Rifle Brigade
from:Ripley, Surrey
(d.29th Jun 1916)
In the 1911 Census: Frederick Parfitt is listed as an Oil Salesman and Travelling Draper's Assistant, living at Ripley, a small village near Woking in Surrey.
Rifleman Frederick Parfitt, S/2352, served with the 12th Battalion, Rifle Brigade. He died on 29th June 1916. Fred is buried in Vlamertinge Military Cemetery, Belgium. [No records are held of place or circumstances of death]
Pte. Ronald George Parfitt
British Army 9th Btn. King's Royal Rifle Corps
from:Princess Christian's Farm Colony,New Trench, Hildenborough, Kent
(d.1st Jul 1916)
Ronald Parfitt was the son of a great-great aunt on my father's side of the family. I shall be visiting his grave on September 19th 2018 to pay my respects. Ronald's military will shows that he left money (14/- 11d) to my grandfather and several of his siblings. Ronald is buried at Agny Military Cemetery.
L/Cpl. William G. Parfitt
British Army 3rd Btn. Rifle Brigade
from:Belfast
(d.6th Jul 1915)
L/Cpl. James Henry Pargeter
British Army 5th Battalion Oxfordshire And Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
from:Hook Norton
(d.15th January 1916)
Pte. John Edwin Parham
British Army 2nd Btn. Rifle Brigade
from:London
I heard a story how John Parham and fellow soldiers saved the life of the Prince of Wales after he was visiting the Front on his charger and entourage when a shell fell very close to where the Prince was and his horse panicked and fell into a shell hole, trapping the Prince and horse in mud. John ran over with fellow friends and linked there belts together and managed to pull the Prince of Wales to safety who said to the men that he would recommend them for their bravery.
My grandfather was a man who saw the war as a service to the country, did not believe in glory and, I was told, he burnt his medals.
In 1964 I was given two cavalier statues which I still have and they stood over my grandfather's fire place for years covered in soot so when I got them home I soaked them in soapy water only to find they had a false bottom in them and inside to my horror was documents that melted away in front of my eye's never knowing what they where and why were they inside the bottom of the cavaliers.
We, as a family, wonder whether the saving of the Prince of Wales had any truth to it.
Pte. James Harold Parish
British Army 11th Btn Royal West Kent Regiment
from:Swavesey, Cambridgeshire
(d.1st Aug 1917)
James Parish was my Great Uncle and the second eldest of a family of 12 children. He joined the Queens Own (Royal West Kent Regiment) in Bury St Edmunds in probably 1916. He was killed in action on 1 August, 1917 and buried at Bedford House Cemetery. He was in his 30s when he was killed and was single. I am trying to research his war service and to find a picture of him. He was a miller by trade, although his family were mainly farmers.
Swavesey is a small village eight miles from Cambridge on the busy A14. It paid a heavy price in the Great War, losing many young men. Any information regarding James's service would be very welcome
Pte. Frederick Park
British Army 24th Btn. Welch Regiment
from:Seven Sisters, Neath
(d.22nd Oct 1918)
Frederick Park served with the 24th Welsh Regiment.
Pte Horace Park
British Army 8th Btn York and Lancaster Regiment
from:Barnsley
(d.17th Sep 1917)
Spr. James Down Park
Australian Imperial Forces 1st Australian Tunnelling Coy.
from:Redfern, NSW
(d.13th June 1917)
Gnr. Richard Park
British Army 63rd Div. Ammunition Col. Royal Field Artillery
from:53 Dale Street South Shields
(d.13th Sep 1918)
Richard Park was my great grandfather. He served with the 63rd division ammunition column, Royal Field Artillery . He died on 13th September 1918 and is buried at Varennes Military Cemetery in France. I unfortunately do not have any photographs of him, however my Aunt in Australia does have a letter that he sent to his wife from the trenches a few months before he was killed.
Pte. Robert Walter Park
British Army 4th Battalion Essex Regiment
from:Forest Gate, Essex.
(d.26th Mar 1917)
Robert Walter was my husbands grandmothers brother the first of two brothers killed during WW1 he died in Palestine. His name appears on the Jerusalem memorial.
Cpl. Thomas Arthur Park
British Army 18th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
VAD. Parker
Voluntary Aid Detachment No. 16 Stationary Hospital
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