Cpl Thomas Parker, 2nd Battalion Royal Welsh Fusiliers, killed on the Somme battlefield 6 November 1916.
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Part of a British Army Trench Map 28NE3 Edition 7B (German trenches corrected to 24.10.17) showing Fitzclarence Farm to the north east of Inverness Copse on the Ypres Salient battlefield.
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