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Major · 8 Battery, 3 Australian Field Artillery Brigade

Francis Maitland Wyborn ("Frank") Parker

† 18/03/1915 · aged 38 · Cairo War Memorial Cemetery, Egypt, B. 187; personal inscription: SI VIS PACEM PARA BELLUM

Personal data

NameParker
InitialsF.M.W.
Christian nameFrancis Maitland Wyborn ("Frank")
Date and place of birthPerth, Western Australia; 18.09.1876
Address"Chambray", St Georges Terrace, Perth, Western Australia
Professionbarrister, Crown Prosecutor
FamilySon of the Hon. Sir Stephen Henry Parker, K.C.M.G., and Lady Amy Katherine (nee Leake) Parker. Husband of Dorothy Winifred Stenhouse

Military data

RankMajor
Regiment / Unit8 Battery, 3 Australian Field Artillery Brigade
Date of death
Age38
Cemetery / MemorialCairo War Memorial Cemetery, Egypt, B. 187; personal inscription: SI VIS PACEM PARA BELLUM

Other information

Information 1
Served in Boer War (D.S.O.)
Information 2
Died of illness (cerebral spinal meningitis); buried with full military honours
Information 3
'The Parker Lamp' - Perth, Western Australia Branch. Endowed on 04.05.1927. First lit on 04.05.1927, from the Forster Lamp, the Parent Lamp of Toc H in Australia, at Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. "In memory of Frank Parker, D.S.O., Major, 8th Field Artillery. Egypt. 27.3.1915 (sic)" (Donated by his father)

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Sources

Source
Liber Vitae 1928 (27.03 = sic)