Notes
The Roll lists his address as 1 Silver Street. It incorrectly records his date of death as 9/5/1917.
(CWGC records that Private Ernest C Parkinson, regimental number 33343, died aged 28 on 9/4/1917 serving in 1st Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment, and is buried in grave I.B.25 at Heninel-Croiselles Road Cemetery in France. They record him as the son of John William Parkinson of 1 Silver Street, London Road, Peterborough. Soldiers Died in the Great War records that Ernest was a native of Huntingdon who enlisted in Oldham, that he died on 9/4/1917, and that he had formerly served in the Manchester Regiment under regimental number 25139; however, his Medal Index Card does not record any other unit than the East Yorkshire Regiment. The Army Registers Of Soldiers' Effects record that he died on 9/4/1917, and that his sister Rose was his legatee. Ernest Charles Parkinson's birth was registered in the Huntingdon District in 1890. On the 1901 census he was living with his parents John W and Jane Parkinson at 28 Palmerston Road, Woodston, Peterborough. His mother died in 1902; his father remarried in 1907. On the 1911 census Ernest was a boarder at 5 Cross Street, Oldham; his father and stepmother were living at 24 Tower Street, New Fletton, Peterborough).