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The Roll lists his address as Rose View, Eastfield Road.
(CWGC records that Private George Richard Parker, regimental number 22552, died on 23/7/1916 serving in 1st Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment, and is commemorated on Thiepval Memorial in France. The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects record that George's death "on or since 23/7/1916" was presumed; his father George R Parker was his legatee. Soldiers Died in the Great War records that he was a native of Normanton, Rutland who had enlisted in Peterborough. George Richard Parker's birth was registered in Oakham District in 1887. On the 1891 census he was living with his parents, George Robert and Frances Parker, at Empingham in Rutland, which was given as his place of birth. On the 1901 census he was living with them in Thorpe Road, Peterborough. On the 1911 census he was living with his parents at May Villa, near Walton Bridge, New England, Peterborough; his place of birth was given on that census as Normanton).