Studio portrait of 320 Private (Pte) Frederick Parry, 29th Battalion. Pte Parry successully ...

Studio portrait of 320 Private (Pte) Frederick Parry, 29th Battalion. Pte Parry successully enlisted on 15 July 1915 having been previously rejected for "insufficient chest measurement". He embarked with A Company of the 29th Battalion on board HMAT Ascanius (A11) on 10 November 1915. On the 19th of July 1916 he was severely wounded during the battle of Fromelles (Fleurbaix). Meeting up with his older brother Reuben (1211 Pte Reuben Parry of the same battalion), close to the German lines the two decided that Frederick should try to return to the Allied lines while Reuben and the remains of his unit carried on. Reuben was captured shortly after and Frederick was never seen again. Later that year his family learned via the Red Cross that the Germans had recovered his body and had given him a Christian burial. In 2010 his body was recovered from an unmarked mass grave and formally identified by the Fromelles Joint Identification Board. Pte Parry was then reburied at the new Commonwealth War Cemetery at Pheasant Wood. His brother Reuben survived the war and provided the information about his brother's last hours to the Red Cross. A month after his two boys went missing their father 14827 Sergeant (Sgt) George John Parry enlisted, age 53. Sgt Parry, a railway employee from Brunswick, Vic, enlisted on 21 August 1916 and was posted to the Army Medical Corps (AMC) Sea Transport Staff. He was discharged on 10 January 1917 but immediately re-enlisted for home service duty at Mcleod Camp, Vic, where he served as a Sergeant until 1920. See also P10186.002 and P10351.001.

• Studio portrait of 53 year old 14827 Sergeant (Sgt) George John Parry, a railway employee from ...