George Roworth PARR

George Roworth PARR. Lieutenant, C Coy. 1st Somerset Light Infantry.

Born 29 November 1891 at Kensington, London to Major General. Sir Henry Hallam Parr, K.C.B., and Lady, Lilian Mary Parr, nee Gibbs of Uplands, Minchinhampton, Gloucestershire. 1892 residing with his parents and siblings at Officers Married Quarters, Shorncliffe Camp, Kent. 1911 aged 19, Gentleman Cadet at the Royal Military College, College for Training Officers for The Army, Camberley, Surrey.

Killed in action 19 December 1914 aged 23 while leading his men under a terribly heavy fire near Ploegsteert Wood, Belgium. His company debouched from the east edge of Ploegsteert Wood and

pushed forward against the enemy's lines of wire entanglement as fast as the terrible condition of the ground, pitted with deep shell craters, covered with water and deep in mud, would allow. George was well ahead of his men, who were very fond of him and would follow him anywhere, when he was struck by a bullet from a machine gun and wounded in the leg. He fell, but immediately endeavoured to rise and continue leading the attack. He was struck by another bullet and killed almost instantaneously. His body was recovered later, and now lies near " Somerset House," in Ploegsteert Wood, in the little cemetery where several of his brother officers are also buried.

He was good officer and a gallant gentleman and his died a hero’s death leading his platoon in the attack on the 19th December.

Wills and Admin, Ancestry -

George Roworth Parr. Of Chaffeymoor House, Bourton Dorsetshire. Lieutenant, 13th Somerset Light Infantry killed in action on the 19 December 1914 in Belgium. Administration London 14 May 1915 to his mother, widow. £8447 16s 5d

At rest in Ploegsteert Wood Military Cemetery, Hainaut, Belgium