† 21/08/1917 · aged 20 · Villers-Faucon Communal Cemetery, A.16; personal inscription: SON OF REV.& MRS. ASH PARSONS TO LIVE WAS CHRIST TO DIE, GAIN
Personal data
Name
Parsons
Initials
H.F.
Christian name
Hardy Falconer
Date and place of birth
Rishton, Lancashire; 13.06.1897
Family
Son of James Ash and Henrietta Parsons, of Leysian Mission, City Rd., London.
Extra information
Information
Educated at King Edward VII School, Lytham St Annes, Kingswood School, Bath, and as a medical student at the University of Bristol.
Information 2
Blue plaque at 54 Salisbury Road, Redland, Bristol, Parsons' former home.
Military data
Rank
2nd Lt.
Regiment / Unit
1/2, att. 14 Gloucestershire Regiment
Date of death
Age
20
Cemetery / Memorial
Villers-Faucon Communal Cemetery, A.16; personal inscription: SON OF REV.& MRS. ASH PARSONS TO LIVE WAS CHRIST TO DIE, GAIN
Other information
Information
V.C.
Information 2
"Remembrance"
Information 3
'The Parsons Lamp' - Basingstoke Branch, Hampshire. Endowed on 01.04.1931. First lit on 06.06.1931 at Crystal Palace, London, by H.R.H. the Prince of Wales. "In memory of Hardy Falconer Parsons, V.C., 2nd Lt., 14th Battn. Gloucester Regt., aged 20. The Knoll, Villers-Faucon, 22.8.1917 (sic); and of Ewart Moulton Parsons, Lt., R.A.F., aged 19. Eastbourne, 17.6.1918." (Given by their father.) Brass plaques (3) kept at Talbot House.
Media
Sources
Source
BRT36
Source 2
Roll of the Lamps of Maintenance of Toc H, 1922-1936
