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DEATH OF MR W. R. PARKER

We regret to announce the death on Tuesday of Mr. W. R. Parker, of 9 Selkirk-street, Cheltenham. He was the youngest son of the late Inspector J. H. Parker, of the Gloucestershire Constabulary, and was born at Beckford in 1887, but on Inspector Parker being transferred to Cheltenham four years later, his son was sent to the Parish Church School, where he gained all his education, and in after days took a great interest in the old school. After leaving he was apprenticed to cabinet-making with the firm of Luker and Co., and afterwards went into his uncle's firm - H. Mealing and Co., builders - with whom he worked until last Whitsuntide, when illness finally compelled him to give up. He was an original member of the Clarence United Cricket Club (of which his brother has been captain for 25 years), and will be much missed by his fellow-members and workmates, whose affection and respect he had gained by his good comradeship in work and play. During the Great War Mr. Parker served in Palestine with a battalion of the Devon Regiment. He leaves a widow, who was the eldest daughter of Mr. A. Dimond, another well-known Cheltonian, but there is no family.