| Regimental number | 2023 |
| Place of birth | Bredbo, New South Wales |
| School | Bredbo Public School, New South Wales |
| Religion | Church of England |
| Occupation | Labourer |
| Address | Muryumbulla via Cooma, New South Wales |
| Marital status | Single |
| Age at embarkation | 18 |
| Next of kin | Father, S Parker, Muryumbucca via Cooma, New South Wales |
| Previous military service | Nil |
| Enlistment date | |
| Place of enlistment | Goulburn, New South Wales |
| Rank on enlistment | Private |
| Unit name | 55th Battalion, 3rd Reinforcement |
| AWM Embarkation Roll number | 23/72/3 |
| Embarkation details | Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales, on board HMAT A37 Barambah on |
| Rank from Nominal Roll | Private |
| Unit from Nominal Roll | 35th Battalion |
| Fate | Died of wounds |
| Age at death from cemetery records | 19 |
| Place of burial | No known grave |
| Commemoration details | The Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 25), Belgium The Menin Gate Memorial (so named because the road led to the town of Menin) was constructed on the site of a gateway in the eastern walls of the old Flemish town of Ypres, Belgium, where hundreds of thousands of allied troops passed on their way to the front, the Ypres salient, the site from April 1915 to the end of the war of some of the fiercest fighting of the war. The Memorial was conceived as a monument to the 350,000 men of the British Empire who fought in the campaign. Inside the arch, on tablets of Portland stone, are inscribed the names of 56,000 men, including 6,178 Australians, who served in the Ypres campaign and who have no known grave. The opening of the Menin Gate Memorial on 24 July 1927 so moved the Australian artist Will Longstaff that he painted 'The Menin Gate at Midnight', which portrays a ghostly army of the dead marching past the Menin Gate. The painting now hangs in the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, at the entrance of which are two medieval stone lions presented to the Memorial by the City of Ypres in 1936. Since the 1930s, with the brief interval of the German occupation in the Second World War, the City of Ypres has conducted a ceremony at the Memorial at dusk each evening to commemorate those who died in the Ypres campaign. |
| Panel number, Roll of Honour, Australian War Memorial | 126 |
| Miscellaneous information from cemetery records | Parents: Samuel and Elizabeth PARKER, Murrumbucca, Bredbo, New South Wale |
| Other details |
War service: Western Front Embarked from Sydney, 23 June 1916; disembarked Plymouth, England, 25 August 1916. Transferred to 35th Bn, 23 September 1916. Found guilty of failing to salute an officer: awarded 3 days' confined to barracks, 21 October 1916. Proceeded overseas to France, 21 November 1916. Admitted to 7th General Hospital, Boulogne, 15 December 1916; rejoined unit, 5 January 1917. Wounded in action, 7 June 1917 (gun shot wound, leg); transferred to England, 13 June 1917, and admitted to 1st Southern General Hospital, 14 June 1917. Discharged to furlough, 30 June 1917, to report to Training Depot, Perham Downs, 14 July 1917. Proceeded overseas to France, 6 August 1917; rejoined unit, 23 August 1917. Wounded in action, 2 October 1917; died of wounds, 2 October 1917, in the field. Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal |
| Miscellaneous details | Father's initial incorrectly recorded on Embarkation Roll as 'M'; address as 'Murrumbulla'. |