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Private WILLIAM PARNABY

Service Number: 57886
Regiment & Unit/Ship

West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own)

2nd/5th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 20 July 1918

Age 19 years old

Buried or commemorated at

MARFAUX BRITISH CEMETERY

V. C. 11.

France

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  • Secondary Unit, Regiment formerly Northumberland Fusiliers
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Caryle and Jane Parnaby, of St. Mary's St., Boston Spa, Yorks.
  • Personal Inscription ON EARTH HE TOILED IN HEAVEN HE RESTS THEY MISS HIM MOST WHO LOVED HIM BEST
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Buried or commemorated at

MARFAUX BRITISH CEMETERY
Marne France
Number of casualties: 1129
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