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Albert "Sparrow" Parr
British Army 1st Btn. Manchester Regiment
from:Wigan
(d.30th Jul 1916)
My great uncle, Albert Parr, served with the 1st Battalion, Manchester Regiment in Mesopotamia, where he died of enteric fever aged 23 in July 1916.
He was my grandma's brother, and she told me of a letter he'd written home saying the troops were having to drink water contaminated by the dead bodies of mules.
He may have been transferred to India, or moved there to a hospital because he is commemorated on the Kirkee Memorial in India.