PARSONS, GEORGE ALFRED
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21/09/1944
19
The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry 1st Bn.
I. B. 10.
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Killed in the vicinity of the Wilhelmina Canal, near the village of Oirschot. Initially buried at Oerle.
From the service records of George Alfred Parsons, the following account can be reconstructed.
George Alfred Parsons was born on 1 September 1925 in North Kensington, London. In civilian life he worked as a packer at a railway station.
He enlisted in the British Army on 16 February 1943 and joined the General Service Corps. On 13 May 1943 he was transferred to the Queen’s Royal Regiment, and on 23 May 1943 to the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry.
He married Margaret Alice Hadin on 13 May 1944 in Sittingbourne, Kent. The couple had no children.
George Alfred Parsons embarked for service in North West Europe on 24 June 1944.
According to his service records, he was 5 feet 5 inches tall, with brown hair and brown eyes.
George Alfred Parsons was killed in action on 21 September 1944.
