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PVT Edgar Bryan Parsons

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PVT Edgar Bryan Parsons

Birth
Obids, Ashe County, North Carolina, USA
Death
1 Mar 1918 (aged 18)
France
Burial
Thiaucourt-Regnieville, Departement de Meurthe-et-Moselle, Lorraine, France Add to Map
Plot
Plot B Row 5 Grave 31
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Born Ashe County NC WW1 Doughboy is PVT Edgar Parsons. He was born in 1899 in the Obids community. He joined the army in 1917 while working in West Virginia. Edgar was attached to the 18th Inf 1st Div. He was killed by a exploding shell on March 1 1918. Pvt Parsons was buried in France but has memorial marker in the family cemetery in Glendale Springs NC. PVT Parsons is recognized as the First NC boy to be killed in WW1
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He was killed in the Ansauville sector by nighttime creeping barrage in his bunker before a German attack.

Contributor: Bryan Scott Bard
Born Ashe County NC WW1 Doughboy is PVT Edgar Parsons. He was born in 1899 in the Obids community. He joined the army in 1917 while working in West Virginia. Edgar was attached to the 18th Inf 1st Div. He was killed by a exploding shell on March 1 1918. Pvt Parsons was buried in France but has memorial marker in the family cemetery in Glendale Springs NC. PVT Parsons is recognized as the First NC boy to be killed in WW1
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He was killed in the Ansauville sector by nighttime creeping barrage in his bunker before a German attack.

Contributor: Bryan Scott Bard

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PVT. 18 INF. 1 DIV.

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Entered service from West Virginia

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  • Maintained by: Johnny History
  • Originally Created by: War Graves
  • Added: Aug 7, 2010
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  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/56341608/edgar_bryan-parsons: accessed ), memorial page for PVT Edgar Bryan Parsons (8 Apr 1899–1 Mar 1918), Find a Grave Memorial ID 56341608, citing Saint Mihiel American Cemetery and Memorial, Thiaucourt-Regnieville, Departement de Meurthe-et-Moselle, Lorraine, France; Maintained by Johnny History (contributor 49654896).