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Name
William George Parfitt.
Description
Newspaper Photograph of Lance Corporal William George Parfitt.
Life Story
Name: William George Parfitt.
Service Number: 314.
Rank: Lance Corporal.
Battalion: 3rd Battalion.
Regiment: Rifle Brigade.
Born: 1884, Surrey, England.
Died: 6th July 1915.
Address: 23 Oakley Street, Belfast
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William George Parfitt, son of Arthur Edward and Emma Parfitt, lived with his wife at 23 Oakley Street, Belfast
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The 1891 England Census has William living at 39 Hamballa Road, Battersea London with his mother, father, occupation, Painters Compositor, one brother, Victor, 5 years, sister Violet, 7 Months
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The 1901 England Census has William living at 39 Hamballa Road, Battersea London with his mother, father, occupation, Painters Compositor, brother Victor, 16 years, sister Violet, 10 years. A Victor Blundell, 71 is registered as a boarder within the house also
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The 1911 Ireland Census had William within the Return of Military, R.I Constabulary or Metropolitan Police, In Barracks, Limerick
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William married Mary Jane Parfitt, Nee Emerson, on the 24th March 1913 within Ballysillan Presbyterian Church Belfast.
They had a son, George Emerson Parfitt, on the 7th February 1914.
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William joined the Rifle Brigade.
He was posted as part of the British Expeditionary Force to France on the 10th September 1914.
William was a Lance Corporal in 3rd Battalion Rifle Brigade when he Died of Wounds Received In Action on the 6th July 1915 aged 30 years.
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A local newspaper states
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The wife of Corporal William G Parfitt, 3rd Rifle Brigade, of 23 Oakley Street, Belfast, has been informed through Rev N S Talbot, chaplain, of his death in France. The late soldier was sheltering in a dug out after delivering a message to the Brigadier General, when he was wounded by a shell, dying an hour later. Corporal Parfitt was a member of the Ulster Volunteers
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Williams Soldiers Effects were left to his widow Mary Jane.
Dependant Pension Application Forms show Mary Jane as claimant for herself and son.
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William received the British War Medal, Victory Medal and 1914 Star
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He is Remembered at Duhallow A.D.S. Cemetery, Belgium.
To Remember Is To Honour
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Theme
Shankill Roll of Honour
Date
1915
Classification
Newspaper, Photograph, - Belfast Telegraph
