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Military service
Service number:
10160
Age:
25
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)
Division:
3rd Bn.
Birth:
March 27, 1890
Death:
May 25, 1915
Burial/memorial information
Additional information
Son of Samuel Ellen Parsons, of Milborne Port, Yeovil, Somerset, England.
Digital gallery of Private Arthur Harold Parsons
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Inscription
His name as it is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial (2010). Over 11,000 fallen Canadians having no known place of burial in France, are honoured on this Memorial. May they never be forgotten. (J. Stephens) -
Vimy Memorial
Canada's Vimy Memorial, located approximately 8 kilometres to the north-east of Arras, France. May the sacrifice of so many never be forgotten. (J. Stephens) -
Memorial
Inscription - Vimy Memorial … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Honour roll
Entry in the Milborne Port, Somerset Honour Roll curated by Noami Thorp, commemorating the honour of Arthur Harold (Ben) Parsons to that small village where the Parsons family lived until 1912 and where Ben was born. -
Photo
Ben Parsons would be the 2nd great uncle of Trish Hannigan who visited the Vimy Memorial from Victoria, British Columbia, in 2019 to see his inscription there. -
Newspaper clipping
Article from the Western Gazette in Yeovil Somerset in 1915 announcing the death of Arthur Harold (Ben) Parsons including excerpts from a letter to Ellen Parsons from Ben's chum from Toronto Privt. D. Sloan. -
Photo of Arthur Harold Parsons
This image was mistaken for Arthur Harold but is actually his older brother who returned from South Africa after Arthur died in 1915. Shirley Parsons enlisted and served in the King's Royal Rifles as can be seen by the cap badge.
Digital gallery of
Private Arthur Harold Parsons
Digital gallery of
Private Arthur Harold Parsons
Digital gallery of
Private Arthur Harold Parsons
Digital gallery of
Private Arthur Harold Parsons
Digital gallery of
Private Arthur Harold Parsons
Digital gallery of
Private Arthur Harold Parsons
Digital gallery of
Private Arthur Harold Parsons
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 31 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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