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Age-26

178 Cambridge Road, Kilburn

St Patrick's Cemetery, Loos, France

On 5th February, 1916, 7th London of 140 Brigade, 47th Division, moved into the trenches in the Loos sector of the front line. The following morning, 6th February, a working party from the battalion was employed digging a trench on the left of these positions, to the rear of Harrison’s crater, when they were subjected to a 1½ hour bombardment by trench mortars and rifle grenades which caused considerable damage to the trench and resulted in the death of 2 men, one of them being Albert Parker.