| Surname: | Parsons |
| Initials: | W H |
| Rank: | Lance Corporal |
| Army Number: | 7690939 |
| Notes: | CMP. He was born and resided in Sussex and enlisted in to CMP. No mention of death in 101 Pro Coy War Diary WO 166/5902. Unit near Salisbury at time of his death. 2/11/1941, Died, Home. Casualty List 681/6, Home, Died, 2-10/11/1941. Casualty List 781/24, Home, Died, casualty date should read 2/11/1941. Medal card not found. Walter Herbert Parsons. Extract from the Salisbury Times - Friday 14 November 1941. Domestic troubles were the causer of L/Cpl Walter Herbert Parsons, aged 41, of the Corps of Military Police taking his life, it was stated at the inquest conducted by the Wiltshire Coroner at Amesbury Police Station yesterday. He had tried to get permission to leave the Army in order to patch things up, but had failed to do so. Parsons was found on November 10th in a coroner on Landford Wood on the Southampton road with a bullet wound through his head and a service revolver lying by his side. He had been dead about a week. The Coroner brought in an open verdict. |
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| Date of Death: | Nov. 2, 1941 |
| Company: | 101 PRO COY |
| CWGC Link: | 2723081 |
| Cemetery: | COWFOLD (ST PETER) CHURCHYARD EXTENSION, UNITED KINGDOM 🇬🇧 |
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