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Due to the sudden decisions of various played not to play in a particular match, the club used a total of 62 players that season, the most ever used in a single season by a VFL club. This indicates that, given Parker only played towards the end of the season (rounds 9. 13, and 14), he may not have
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He was lying in a shell hole, and was too badly wounded to be carried back to the
Australian lines. The entire stretcher party that had gone to retrieve him were shot down before they could reach the shell-hole; and, by the time a patrolling party could reach the site, Parker was no longer there.
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Buried at the Rue-Petillon
Military Cemetery, Fleurbaix, France, Parker is commemorated in a two-panel memorial window installed at St. Johns Uniting Church, at the corner of Mount Alexander Road and Buckley Street, Essendon ("In Loving Memory of Lieut Harold Carlyle Parker, 27th Battln, Died of
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was the ludicrous mistake made by Parker, a St. Kilda forward, who was so entirely alone when he got the ball in front that he might have crawled to the goal line, but who from the distance of a few yards mistook the opening and kicked a behind, amidst much
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on 26 September 1892. He attended
Essendon State School. He married Jessie Parker (she remarried after the war and became Mrs. Cumming). At the time of his enlistment, he gave his occupation as warehouseman.
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of the AIF, during a trench raid in France on the night of 29 January 1917, when he was struck in the groin by German machine gun fire.
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Prior to his enlistment on 11 October 1915, Parker had 3½ years experience in the
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wounds within the German Lines at Armentieres, 30th Jany 1917, aged 25 years. Thy Will be done".).
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The son of Robert Grainger Parker and Eva Parker, he was born in
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