A Collection of Medals to Great War Casualties

Three: Private E. G. Parker, Northamptonshire Regiment, who was killed in action on the Western Front on 9 May 1915, aged just 17, on which date his Battalion suffered over 550 casualties

1914-15 Star (3-9908 Pte. E. G. Parker. North’n R.); British War and Victory Medals (3-9908 Pte. E. G. Parker. North’n. R.) in named card box of issue, with outer OHMS transmission envelope, addressed to ‘Mr. O. J. Parker, 90 Mill Road, Welligborough’; Memorial Plaque (Ernest George Parker) in card envelope, with Buckingham Palace enclosure; Memorial Scroll, ‘Pte. Ernest George Parker, Northamptonshire Regt.’, in OHMS transmission tube, addressed to ‘Miss E. Parker, 90 Mill Road, Wellingborough, Northampton’, extremely fine (5) £160-£200

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to Great War Casualties.

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Provenance: Acquired by the vendor directly from the recipient’s family.

Ernest George Parker was born in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, and attested there for the Northamptonshire Regiment. He served with the 1st Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 11 March 1915, and was killed in action at Le Touret on 9 May 1915, on which date the Battalion suffered total casualties of 558 all ranks killed, wounded, or missing.

Parker was just 17 at the time of his death. He has no known grave and is commemorated on Le Touret Memorial, France.

Sold with named Record Office enclosures, and copied research.