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VC868 Hardy Falconer Parsons
Name Hardy Falconer Parsons No. POSTHUMOUS
VC Issue No. 868 Awards VC
Regiment Gloucestershire Regiment, 14th (Service) Battalion
Later Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire & Wiltshire Regiment
Now 1st Battalion, The Rifles
Rank VC Won Temporary Second Lieutenant
Rank End Of Career Temporary Second Lieutenant
Place Of Birth Rishton, Blackburn, Lancashire, England
Place Of Death Near Epehy, France
Buried/Location Ashes Villers-Faucon Communal Cemetery, 6 miles north-east of Peronne, Somme, France
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Headstone (CWGC) Plot/Grave no. Row A, Grave 16
Gazetted 17 October 1917
VC Presented 8 November 1917 by King George V at Durdham Downs, Bristol, England to his father, The Reverend J A Ash Parsons
Memorials
P Headstone, Villers-Faucon Communal Cemetery, 6 miles north-east of Peronne, Somme, France
P Memorial Brass Plaque, Kingswood School, Bath, Somerset
P Named on War Memorial, Kingswood School, Bath, Somerset
P Named on Family Grave, Canford Lane Cemetery, Bristol
P Named on War Memorial, Wills Building, Bristol University, Bristol
Memorial Plaque, King Edward VII School, Lytham-St-Anne's, Lancashire
Named on War Memorial, Methodist Church, Clifton Drive South, St Annes-on-Sea, Lancashire
Memorial Plaque, Wesley Memorial Church, New Inn Hall Street, Oxford, Oxfordshire
By The Way…
Before the war he was preparing for Medical Missionary Work abroad
VC Held By
Gloucestershire Regiment Museum, Custom House, Commercial Road, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England
BORN 13 June 1897
DIED 21 August 1917 AGE 20
VC Won 20-21 August 1917 AGE 20
Place VC Won Near Epehy, France
War/Campaign First World War 1917
Thank you to Zoe Parsons at Kingswood School, for providing photo's of their Memorial
