Francis H. Parker
Francis Harold Parker served with the A.I.F. during World War One.
History
Parker was born at Clunes in 1884, the sone of George H. Parker and Lucy Jane Aplin.[1] He worked with his father as a gunsmith.[2]
Parker enlisted 16 September 1914.[2] He joined the 8th Battalion and was in the first landings on Gallipoli on 25 April 1915.[2] He was evacuated from Gallipoli with diarrhoea and shell shock in August 1915, and sent to hospital on Mudros.[2] After recovery he was put on light duties and posted to the hospital ship Asonia, and then later as a flare light operator on the Egyptian Pier at Mudros. In January 1916 he was diagnosed with heart problems, and later readmitted to hospital with dyspepsia.[2]
In May 1916, Parker was sent in to action in France. He was wounded in action in May 1917, sent to England to the Bath War Hospital for treatment for a gun shot wound to his left knee.[2] Later readmitted to hospital with malaria in July 1917. He returned to active service in February 1918, but was occipitalised for being ill, and then getting scabies. He was returned to the Bath War Hospital in March 1918.[2] In April he was returned to Australia on the hospital ship, Dunluce Castle, suffering with neurasthenia.[2]
After World War One, Parker became a fitter and turner at Ronaldson and Tippett.[3]
Legacy
[World War One]] service recognised on the Ballarat Avenue of Honour.
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Notes
References
- ↑ Pioneer Index Victoria 1836-1888, Index to Births, Deaths, and Marriages in Victoria, 1884 Births, Ref. No. 23392, Macbeth Genealogical Services, 1998
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 National Archives of Australia, World War I records, B2455, PARKER FRANCIS HAROLD, SERN 1079, http://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/SearchScreens/BasicSearch.aspx accessed 17 January 2015
- ↑ A. M. Taylor. Dinkum Oil: Letters Published in the Ballarat Courier During the Great War. Ballarat, 2006.
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