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William Parke (British Army officer)

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and his wife Emilia Yorke. They had a son and a daughter. His daughter, Dorothy Eden Parke married Somerset Sherston in 1911 and bought
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5th class. He became Brigadier-General of Field Forces in India in March 1858, Commandant, School of Military Engineering at
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in August 1861, and colonel on the staff of South-Eastern District in October 1871. He went on to be Brigadier-General at
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where there son Edric Sherston was born. Somerset Sherston was killed in the
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In 1865 Parke married Anna Maria Nepean, daughter of William Nepean of the
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Parke died aged 74 on 28 March 1897 at Thornhill, Stalbridge, Dorset.
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Parke was born in Marylebone, London on 17 May 1822, the son of
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Families of Those Men Named on the Otley Village War Memorial
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British military personnel of the Indian Rebellion of 1857
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London
England
United Kingdom
United Kingdom

British Army
General
South-Eastern District
Crimean War
Order of the Bath
General
KCB
British Army
Charles Parke
Eton College
ensign
72nd Regiment, Duke of Albany's Own Highlanders
Crimean War
Legion of Honour
Order of the Medjidie
Fleetwood
Aldershot
South-Eastern District
16th Light Dragoons
Otley Hall
Battle of Aubers
British Union of Fascists
Second World War

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