Lance Corporal Horace Parkin


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Reference WMO/289286

Address:

York and Lancaster Regimental Museum

Clifton Park Museum

Clifton Lane

Rotherham

S65 2AA

England

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Status: On subsequent site(s)
Type: Non freestanding
Location: Internal
Setting: Inside a building - public/private
Description: Board/Plaque/ Tablet
Materials:
  • Stone Stone (any)
  • Stone Marble
Lettering: Incised
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
About the memorial: Nowy headed white marble tablet mounted onto a stone backboard. Inscription in black lettering. Regimental badge carved in relief at the top centre of the tablet and floral design carved in relief on the sides of the tablet. It was originally at Kiveton Park Methodist Church and then at the Regimental Museum at it's former location of Rotherham Central Library, Walker Place, Rotherham.
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YORK AND LANCASTER/ IN LOVING MEMORY OF/ LCE CPL HORACE PARKIN/ OF THE SHEFFIELD BATTALION/ THE BELOVED SON OF/ WILLIAM & ELIZABETH PARKIN/ WHO WAS KILLED IN ACTION IN FRANCE/ JULY 1ST 1916/ AGED 28 YEARS./ SLEEP ON DEAR SON IN A FOREIGN GRAVE/ YOUR LIFE FOR YOUR COUNTRY YOU NOBLY GAVE/ NO FRIEND STOOD NEAR TO YOU TO SAY GOODBYE/ BUT SAFE IN GOD'S KEEPING NOW YOU LIE.

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