Leonard Arthur Parker
Known as Arthur on 1921 census.
Warehouseman/driver for the Co-Operative Society.
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Son of Leonard and Sarah Jane Parker of 97 Bestwood Road, Hucknall.
Siblings: Charles (1906), Kitty (1913) and George (1917).
Married Marian Severn in 1939 at Basford. She also worked for the Co-Operative Society, as a clerk.
Marian remarried in 1945 to Charles Bill.
The 3rd, 5th and 6th battalions of the Grenadier Guards fought as part of the First Army in North Africa before taking part in the invasion of Italy at Salerno. They took part in Operation Shingle, an attempt to bypass the German forces by making an amphibious landing at Salerno to take Rome. Despite the element of surprise the Allied forces became trapped in the marshlands surrounding the beach-head, especially so when the Germans flooded the marshlands by switching off the drainage pumps. The Battle of Anzio and the taking of Rome last to 5th of June 1944 and cost the lives of 10,000 British soldiers and 24,000 American lives.
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