WORLD WAR I
Bingham War Memorial
Service Record
| R/363046 70827 |
Private Walter Parkes | Army Service Corps Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derby Regiment) |
born 1886 |
| Medal roll & SWB roll |
Awarded Victory and British medals Awarded Silver War Badge – discharged because of sickness: Enlisted 9/8/15, discharged 1/12/17. No service/pension records exist on Ancestry Prefix “R” indicates Walter served in the “Remounts” section. |
The ASC Remounts Service was responsible for the provisioning
of horses and mules to all other army units. It was not a large part of
the ASC, despite the huge numbers of animals produced, amounting in 1914
to only four Remount Squadrons that ran four Remount Depots (Woolwich,
Dublin, Melton Mowbray and Arborfield). A Remount Squadron consisted of approximately 200 soldiers, who obtained and trained 500 horses. They were generally older, experienced soldiers. [Walter was 29 when he enlisted]. Animals were obtained during the war by compulsory purchase in the United Kingdom and by purchasing from North and South America, New Zealand, Spain, Portugal, India and China. (from: http://www.1914-1918.net/ASC_Remounts.html ) |
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| AVL Roll of Honour |
AVL address: Needham St., Bingham RoH: served on the Western Front |
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Family history etc
| Private Walter Parkes | |||
| 1886 FREEBMD | Born Marston, APR- JUN Newark district | ||
| Census 1891 | Lived in Marston with: Father: Henry Parkes, b. 1842 Marston, Lincs Mother: Louisa. b.1833 Barkston,South Kesteven, Lincs Brothers: George, b. 1879 Marston, Lincs Alfred Henry, b.1884 Arthur Tristam, b. 1889 Marston, Lincs |
Farm labourer |
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| Census 1901 | Lived in Marston with: Father: Henry Mother: Louisa Sibligs: George Arthur Tristam Elijah A, b. 1893 Marston, Lincs Percy, b. 1897 Marston, Lincs Florence M, b. 1900 Marston, Lincs |
Day boy on farm Roadman Agricultural labourer |
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| 1909 FREEBMD | Walter married Annie Parnham in APR- JUN, Bingham Children: George E sept 1911 Dorothy M Jun 1914 Grace A. Jun 1918 |
1901 census Annie lived in Bingham, b. Cropwell Bishop 1887 | |
| Census 1911 | Living at 2 Chapel Yard, Newgate St., Bingham with: Wife: Annie, b. 1887 Cropwell Bishop Daughter: Mary Gwendoline Grace, b. 1910 Bingham |
Farm labourer | |
| 1918 AVL | Needham St., Bingham | ||
| Electoral Register | Not present in Bingham | ||
| 1939 register | 62 Inner Street, Grantham Walter Parkes, b. 24 April 1886, married * Annie Parkes, b. 8 Sep 1887, married George E Parkes, b. 21 Jun1911, single Closed record Phyllis I Bates (Parkes), b. 3 Sep 1925 single One Closed record |
General Labourer (Heavy worker) Unpaid domestic duties Coal Carter (Heavy worker) Unemployed seeking work |
* Incorrectly transcribed from original as Widowed |
| 1944 | Died Grantham, Sept 1944 qtr aged 58 | Annie died Grantham aged 57 Mar qtr 1945 |