George Frederic Parkin was the brother of George Richard Parkin and both were sons of George Anthony Parkin, the pharmacist in Borrowash and Edith Parkin.
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
PARKIN, GEORGE FREDERIC
Rank: Second Lieutenant
Date of Death: 09/04/1917
Age: 21
Regiment/Service: West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales’s Own), 12th Bn.
Panel Reference:Bay 4.
Memorial: ARRAS MEMORIAL
Additional Information: Son of Edith Parkin, of Nottingham Rd., Borrowash, Derbyshire, and the late George A. Parkin.
Soldiers Died in the Great War, 1914-1919
Name: George Frederic Parkin
Death Date: 09-Apr-17
Rank: T/2/Lieutenant
Regiment: Prince of Wales’s Own (West Yorkshire Regiment)
Battalion: 12th Battalion
Type of Casualty: Killed in action
The grave of parents George Anthony and Edith Parkin is in All Saints Churchyard, Ockbrook, and commemorates their two sons.
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