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Australians
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Hint: This site is intended as a search aid - not a definitive source. It is essentially an index to documents that seem to relate to this person plus a very brief precis of relevant elements. Sources often conflict and I also flag things with a ? when I am unsure. So if the information below is important to you, then please check the original sources to see what else they contain (and in case I have inadvertantly introduced transcription and/or precising errors). There can be additional information that was not included in the database for both space and copyright reasons.
| Surname | | PARKES |
| Given Name(s) or Initial(s) | | Sydney Ernest |
| Regimental Number | | 144 |
| Rank | | Sergeant |
| Unit Name | | 1st New South Wales Mounted Rifles |
| State | | NSW |
Extracts and Comments
(from Sources as shown) | |
Murray: 'B'Sqn.
B5204: Queen's South Africa medal and 4 clasps (Jbg. DH Witte. & CC).
URL1: Sid. PARKES WW1 AIF 6LH, fought at Wittebergen, Diamond Hill, Rhenoster Kop, Zand R. and dozen other places, reminiscences would make diverting copy, stopped mauser bullet.
URL2: PARKES Sydney Ernest, Sgt. 188 6LH.
URL3: WW1 AIF 6LH 188 Sergeant B Sqn., PARKES Sidney Ernest a wool buyer aged 35 in 1914 born in Staffs. Eng., next of kin mother in Hornsby NSW, 7 years 7th Regt. [?] Sergt., 18 months NSWMR SA Sergt., 1st Regt. Inf., Tpr. 10.9.1914 Sergt. 1.10.1914 killed in action 24.5.1915 at Anzac Cove Gallipoli, buried in Shrapnel Gully Cemetery.
URL4: ?dangerously wounded at Rhenoster Post.
URL5: dangerously wounded at Rhenoster Poort c10.1900.
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Murray: Official Records of the Australian Contingents etc. page(s) 64
Howe: Words of War page(s) 99
B5204: National Archives of Australia series B5204
Syd. Herald : Sydney Morning Herald newspaper date(s) 14.12.1914
B2455: National Archives of Australia series B2455 BHMNr: 12.10.1900
W. Mail: Western Mail newspaper date(s) 20.10.1900
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