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Flight Sergeant GERALD PARKES

Service Number: 1817340
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

578 Sqdn.

Date of Death

Died 22 December 1944

Age 29 years old

Buried or commemorated at

RHEINBERG WAR CEMETERY

8. E. 16.

Germany

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Owen and Kate Parkes, of Dudley, Worcestershire; husband of Edith Eunice Parkes, of Dudley.
  • Personal Inscription GOD TAKES OUR LOVED ONES FROM OUR HOMES, NEVER FROM OUR HEARTS. REUNITED WITH HIS SON
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Buried or commemorated at

RHEINBERG WAR CEMETERY
Nordrhein-Westfalen Germany
Number of casualties: 3339
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