Lives of the First World War

Source information

ID: 3401136

Reference: WO372/15

Title: Medal Index Card

Description: Medal index cards were created by the Army Medal Office towards the end of the First World War. They record the medals that men and women who served in the First World War were entitled to claim.

URL: http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/Details?uri=D4524443
IWM is not responsible for the content of external websites. Please note that some sources will require payment to view.

UPP: GBM/MCI/3404544

Credit: © The National Archives

Source information

ID: 7200538

Reference: CWGCCASUALIWM

Title: Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) Casualty Records

Description: The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) commemorate First World War servicemen and women and members of some civilian organisations who died before 31 August 1921 while in Commonwealth military service or of causes attributable to service.

Connected by: Imperial1

URL: http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/368058/
IWM is not responsible for the content of external websites. Please note that some sources will require payment to view.

UPP: GBM/CWGCCASUALIWM/268997

Additional: This record has been automatically matched to the Life Story by IWM, using rules based on name, rank, number, regiment and service.

Credit: © Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Source information

ID: 9192345

Title: John Wynand Parks MC Commonwealth War Grave

Description: He is buried in Chislehurst Cemetery, Kent. He was wounded in 1917 and died in 1919 following an operation at Queens Hospital, Sidcup

Connected by: Tracey528

Source information

ID: 9192360

Title: John Wynand Parks MC

Description: Commonwealth War Graves, Chislehurst Cemetery, Kent lists him as a Military Cross Recipient

Connected by: Tracey528

URL: https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/368058/parks,-john-wynand/
IWM is not responsible for the content of external websites. Please note that some sources will require payment to view.

Additional: Please could you add MC to his name

Source information

ID: 9194140

Name: Page 429 WWI

Title: Epsom College Archive

Description: School research regarding John Wynand Parks including picture of family memorial stone in Newcastle Old Cemetery, Natal, South Africa

Connected by: Tracey528

URL: http://archive.epsomcollege.org.uk/First_World_War/Known%20to%20have%20served.pdf
IWM is not responsible for the content of external websites. Please note that some sources will require payment to view.

Additional: John Wynand Parks was at Epsom College from 1909 until he left the OTC.

Source information

ID: 9194158

Title: John Wynand Parks

Description: Supplied by Maidstone Grammar School

Connected by: Tracey528

Source information

ID: 9194460

Title: Family Memorial

Description: Family memorial picture taken by Chris & Petra Lombard for the EggSA project in South Africa. http://www.graves-at-eggsa.org/library/main.php?g2_itemId=761419 Presumably constructed after Clarence W Parks died and was buried in the plot, November 1922

Connected by: Tracey528

Additional: Cannot see any copyright on website, reading the pages it’s a project to document & share as much paper & physical South African history as possible. Credit of photographers given above.

Source information

ID: 9311839

Name: RG14; Piece: 2965

Title: 1911 census Epsom, Surrey

Description: 1911 census ref for John Parks at Epsom College, Public School and Master's Houses, Epsom, Surrey

Connected by: Bearsted33934

URL: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XW83-DP9
IWM is not responsible for the content of external websites. Please note that some sources will require payment to view.

Source information

ID: 9312528

Name: MGS Fallen WW1 page 40

Title: MGS Fallen WW1 for John Wynand Parks

Description: MGS Fallen WW1 Project Booklet

Connected by: Bearsted33934

URL: https://issuu.com/maidstonegrammarschool/docs/booklet_fww_2014_ff6e7cb94ba504/41
IWM is not responsible for the content of external websites. Please note that some sources will require payment to view.

Key to Event Icons

Event Type	Event Icon
appointments
awards
birth
burial
children
commission
dates
death
discharge
education
employment
enlistment
events
hospitalisation
internment
location
marriage
missing
service
sibling
theatres