Just the discharge details would be helpful..................

[*Sandra*]

Wonder if anyone could find further information on this guy.............wife, confirmation of child/children, where he lived on discharge.........Would have been handy to have access to Fold 3 this weekend to solve this little brick wall.

I wonder if he was living in Kent after his 1915 marriage to Dorothy May Beale. Whether the discharge would mention a daughter Dorothy May Beale born 1916 Maidenhead    Just looking for confirmation of those 3 little things. Have other information on him already.

UK, WWI Pension Ledgers and Index Cards says :-

Pte Harry Parker - Birth Date 1892 - Residence Place Wakefield
Military Service Region North East, England
Discharge Date 26 Sep 1917 - Service Number 17453
Regiment:   K.O.Y.L.I. (Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry)
Reference Number:   109681/H, 4/MP/No.3862

This was Harry with his parents and siblings in 1911

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XWVL-MRM

Thank You
Sandra

[MaxD]

I fear it is the usual answer that starts "60% or so of Great War records were lost..." which I am sure you are familiar with.  These may have had the info you are after.  The pension cards being hidden behind Fold 3 is a pain although I note on their web site that the WFA are working to make the info available free to members, you could try that avenue and see where they are with that?

https://www.westernfrontassociation.com/articles/the-western-front-associations-pension-record-card-and-ledger-archive/ (2nd paragraph)

MaxD

[BumbleB]

Forgive my ignorance, but would Harry have received a pension at all?

Enlisted 7 September 1914 - discharged 26 September 1917, aged 25 years 10 months as wounded - Silver War Badge 138,919.  Image available on Ancestry.

[jim1]

As his disability was as a result of his war service the answer is yes.

[*Sandra*]

Thank you for info so far. 

Would be brilliant if anyone had access to see whats hidden behind FOLD 3 .............particularly confirmation of wife, child/children, where he lived on discharge..
Last week it would have been no problem to get the information - sods law the query comes up this week. Always the way.............. lol

Sandra

[Michelle L D]

I have a couple Fold3 documents re: Harry Parker if you are interested.

Michelle

[amondg]

If you still need the information

40% disability - GSW to right knee.

Discharge address 6 Garden Street Wakefield. Another address to the right is 15 Rufford Street, Wakefield.

No relatives mentioned however he was to get 16 shillings, wife 9 shillings 5 pence, children 0. However number of children listed is 2.

The last entries  M S I  22-2-37, and PA OK 24-2-37, above the remarks column are the words "stop cash"
The card on fold 3 covers payments from 1921-1925

[grandarog]

My father was badly wounded twice and received the silver war badge . When he went for the pension medical he was told to walk around 2 chairs at each end of the room .As he was able to, and  he had all his limbs bar  half a finger he was dismissed.
The shrapnel still embedded all down his left shoulder thigh and hip and being blinded in his left eye apparently weren't enough to warrant a pension.