Add Information to Record of a Person who served during the Second World War on The Wartime Memories Project Website

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Pte. Richard Parker

British Army 7th Btn. Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)

from:Hebburn

(d.13th Dec 1942)

Richard Parker, son of Thomas W. and Mary Jane Parker (nee Jefferson) was born in Hebburn, County Durham, Great Britain in 1919. He was the husband of Jane Parker (nee Scott), also of Hebburn. Private Parker died aged 23 during the Western Desert campaign in the minefields of the village of Mersa Brega. He is buried at Benghazi War Cemetery in Libya, and is commemorated on the WW2 Roll of Honour Plaque in the entrance to Jarrow Town Hall, Tyne and Wear, Great Britain.



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