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Major Geoffrey Brooke Parnell ידי AndyBailey

Geoffrey Brooke Parnell was born in Mallow, County Cork, Ireland on 9th September 1882, the son of Colonel Hon. Arthur Parnell (Royal Engineers) and Mary Anna Parnell (nee Dunn) of 11 St.Loo Mansions, Chelsea, Middlesex. Geoffrey was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the 1st Battalion The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment) on 28th January 1903, and promoted to Lieutenant 5th October 1904. On 1st November 1912 Geoffrey was promoted to the rank of Captain, and posted as the Adjutant on 5th Bn Queen's, one of the regiment's Territorial battalion. He went overseas as a Captain to join the 1st Bn Queen's on 9th November 1914, reaching the battalion at Hazebrouck as a reinforcement for casualties suffered during the first months of the war. He was place in command of 'A' Company. On 25th September 1915 Geoffrey entered his first major action at the Battle of Loos. When the Battle of the Somme opened on the 1st July 1916, Major Parnell and the men of 1st Queen's were in the line to the north of the old Loos battlefield area. Over the next fortnight they moved south to join the fight on the Somme fields. On 14th July 1916 the unit, 25 officers and 697 men strong, assembled near the cemetery in the recently captured village of Fricourt in preparation to take their place in the attack. Major Parnell took command of the battalion for the forthcoming action. The morning of 15th July found the men in the front line near Bazentin. At 7am orders were received that the battalion was to attack a German trench (known as 'The Switch') running west from High Wood. A covering barrage was opened at 8.30am and at 8.55am the first wave began their 900 yard advance towards the German line. Immediately the men came under fire from both flanks and the front. This increased as they advanced, with many officers and men becoming casualties. When 200 yards from the Switch the weight of fire halted the advance and the men began to falter. Major Parnell came forwards and rallied the men before leading the attack forwards once again. Almost immediately he was hit and killed. It was discovered that the artillery fire had failed to cut the enemy wire, and 100 yards short of the Switch the men halted in the long grass and began to dig in. The battalion held the line without reinforcement until 12.30pm when, given the extreme danger of being cut off, the remaining officers elected to retire to their original positions, where they were subsequently heavily shelled. As the day closed the battalion diary records 287 casualties (5 officers and 28 men killed, 11 officers and 207 men wounded, and a further 58 men missing). The CWGC register records that 71 men from the unit died on this day. Major Geoffrey Brooke Parnell, was laid to rest in Flat Iron Copse Cemetery. He is commemorated, together with his men who fell at High Wood, on a private memorial designed and erected by his sister Edith in the graveyard of the regimental church, Holy Trinity, Guildford (see <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/andybailey/1572236896/">www.flickr.com/photos/andybailey/1572236896/</a>)
Fricourt German war cemetery (Français: Cimetière militaire allemand de Fricourt) הוא אטרקציה תיירותית, אחד אנדרטאות ובתי קברות צבאיים ב Fricourt , צרפת . הוא ממוקם: 393 קילומטר מ פריז, 448 קילומטר מ בריסל, 790 קילומטר מ לונדון. קרא עוד
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