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PARKES, Francis Leonard
(Service number 14/118)

Aliases
First Rank	Driver	Last Rank

Birth

Date	25/11/1890	Place of Birth	Timaru

Enlistment Information

Date	13/08/1914	Age	23
Address at Enlistment	Saint Andrew's, Timaru, New Zealand
Occupation	Labourer
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	Mrs C. Horsham (mother), Tuatapere, Southland, New Zealand
Religion	Methodist
Medical Information	Height: 5ft 9in, Weight: 154lb. Brown Hair, grey eyes.

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	Main Body
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	New Zealand Army Service Corps, Divisional Train
Date	16 October 1914
Transport	HMNZT 12 Waimana
Embarked From	Auckland, New Zealand	Destination	Suez, Egypt

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With

Military Awards

Campaigns	Australasian (1914); Western European (1917-1918)
Service Medals	1914-1915 Star; British War Medal; Victory Medal
Military Awards

Award Circumstances and Date

No information

Prisoner of War Information

Date of Capture
Where Captured and by Whom
Actions Prior to Capture
PoW Serial Number
PoW Camps
Days Interned
Liberation Date

Discharge

Date	24 May 1919	Reason

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Post-war Occupations

Death

Date		Age
Place of Death
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery
Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Centopath database ( 9 August 2015); Military personnel file (9 August 2015)

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Researched and Written by

Saray Sedeno

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