CHARLES PARRY 

Charles PARRY
Rank: Private
Service Number:50179.
Regiment: 9th Bn Cheshire Regiment
Killed In Action Sunday 11th February 1917
Age 21
FromBirkenhead.
County Memorial Birkenhead
Commemorated\Buried Couin New British Cemetery
CountryFrance

Charles's Story.

Birkenhead News  14 April 1917

THE LATE PTE. CHARLES PARRY.

Mr. and Mrs. Parry of, 11 Shore Drive, Port Sunlight, but who until recently resided in Eastham Street, Birkenhead, have received intelligence that their son, Pte. Chas. Parry, who was but 21 years of age, has been killed in action in France. The deceased was educated at Birkenhead Wesleyan School, and before the war was employed by Messrs. Irving, Little and Co., oil and paint manufacturers, Birkenhead. He joined the 1-4th Cheshires, was at the landing in Suvla Bay, and returned home wounded. On recovering from his injuries young Parry went out to France in December and received his fatal injuries on February 12th. Sergt. S. Carruthers, in whose platoon Pte. Parry was, writing to the latter’s parents, speaks of the deceased’s honourable death. He adds that he was hit by a piece of shell which penetrated to his heart and he suffered no pain. The sergeant, himself a Birkenhead man, sends the sympathy of “the lads” and himself to Mr. and Mrs. Parry in their bereavement, says their son was buried with military honours in a British cemetery, and that he will send home to them the dead soldier’s Prayer Book, which he always carried with him.

 

Although the newspaper article reports Charles Parry’s death as 12th February 1917, it is actually 11th February as recorded by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.