John Cyril Park

John Cyril Park

Service no. C/3294

Rifleman, King's Royal Rifle Corps, 17th Battalion

Died on 18 December 1917, aged 21

CWGC: "Son of John Roberson Park and Eveline Isabel Park, (nee Schuck) of 38, Grafton Square, Clapham, London."

Born in Forest Hill; lived in Clapham; enlisted in Lambeth

Remembered at Boulogne Eastern Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France

Information from the 1911 census

In 1911, John Cyril Park, then a 14-year-old schoolboy, was living with his family in three rooms at 38 Grafton Square, Clapham. His father, John R. Park, 44, was a Clapham-born mercantile clerk; his mother, Eveline Isabel Park, 41, was also from Clapham. John Cyril and his sister, Nelly Violet Eveline Park, 10, were both born in south-east London, John in Forest Hill and Nelly in Honor Oak.