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Lt. · 1 Gloucestershire Regiment

John Atherton Parnell Parnell

† 08/09/1916 · aged 21 · Flatiron Copse Cemetery, Mametz, I. F. 59; personal inscription: THE ETERNAL GOD IS THY REFUGE AND UNDERNEATH ARE THE EVERLASTING ARMS

Personal data

NameParnell Parnell
InitialsJ.A.
Christian nameJohn Atherton
Date and place of birth?; 01.03.1895
AddressWickselme, Berkeley, Gloucestershire
FamilyOnly son of Edith Mary Parnell Parnell, of 1, Aubrey Rd., Kensington, London, and the late Thomas Parnell Parnell, M.A. (Oxon), Ch., Barrister-at-Law, Inner Temple, of Berkeley, Glos.

Extra information

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Educated at Winchester College, Magdalen College, Oxford, and Sandhurst

Military data

RankLt.
Regiment / Unit1 Gloucestershire Regiment
Date of death
Age21
Cemetery / MemorialFlatiron Copse Cemetery, Mametz, I. F. 59; personal inscription: THE ETERNAL GOD IS THY REFUGE AND UNDERNEATH ARE THE EVERLASTING ARMS

Other information

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Killed in action
Information 2
'The Parnell Parnell Lamp' - Grangetown Branch. Endowed on 02.11.1927. First lit on 03.12.1927 at The Royal Albert Hall, London, by H.R.H. the Prince of Wales. "In memory of John Atherton Parnell Parnell, 1st Gloucester Regiment, Somme, 8.9.1916" (Donated by his mother)
Information 3
Commemorated, along with his father, by a memorial plaque in St Mary's Church, Berkeley

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Liber Vitae 1928