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- Sir George Parry (1600–1660) was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons of England from 1640 until 1644.
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Service History. The Rev (Chaplain 4th Class) George Edward Maule Parry was the son of Allen James Parry and Muriel Constance St John Parry, of Leytonstone, Essex. His younger brother, Allen Parry, served with the 9th (Essex) Parachute Battalion.
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19 May 1937 - 10 Feb 2011. George Parry passed through...
- George Parry
- Airborne Padre Was Brutally Murdered
- Vital Bridges Job
- Set Off to Assist
- Tried to Save Wounded
- Crawled For Help
- All Found Dead
- Men Took Revenge
- Buried in Benouville Churchyard, Normandy
“I am at last able to tell you the story of one of the most brutal actions perpetrated by the Nazis against our troops fighting in Normandy – the story of how German soldiers broke into a medical aid post filled with our wounded in the Orne Valley on D-Day, killed the helpless men and then murdered the padre who tried to defend them. The name of th...
The parachute battalion at which the Rev. Geo. Parry was Padre given the job in the early hours of D-Day of dropping by parachute and capturing intact the vital bridges spanning the River Orne and the Caen Canal in Normandy. When they stole down to earth just before 1 a.m. Padre Parry dropped with them. They were soon all engaged defending themselv...
After about an hour, however, he heard that “A” Company of the battalion, which was holding the perimeter of our defences along the west side of the canal near the village Le Port, was in sore straits and aid for the wounded was badly needed. Padre Parry set off through the darkness to join them. Not long after he arrived Nazi forces infiltrated be...
All efforts to get help from the rest of the battalion failed and many men died in trying to get through. And then after one attack the enemy broke “A” Company’s line at one point and penetrated sufficiently to reach the medical aid post where Padre Parry was working on the wounded. Those who were near enough to see what happened say that the Nazi ...
Despite his wounded shoulder, he crawled through the gardens and shell-wrecked houses of Le Port and dodged through the Nazi lines until he reached the bridge. There he refused to have his wound dressed, but asked for a patrol, and immediately returned to his Company, fighting the whole way back.
It was this patrol which recaptured the medical post and occupied it. They found all its occupants dead, with Padre Parry lying beside them. Then, with this small reinforcement, “A” Company held off all subsequent Nazi attacks until late in the evening of D-Day, when troops from the beaches fought their way through and relieved them.
Padre Parry, like the rest of the clergymen attached to 6th Airborne Division, was immensely popular with his men and news of his death and the way in which he died sent a wave of fury and indignation through the whole division. I was with the men of the battalion during many hours of D-Day watching their successful battle to hold the bridge and I ...
The Reverend G.E.M Parry, lies buried in Benouville Churchyard in Normandy. Today, as we celebrate VE Day, please take a few quiet moments to remember that, in our World of instant, vacuous celebrity, there were, and still are, many young men who, like Padre George Parry, remain largely unsung heroes but to whom we owe a massive debt that we can ne...
Feb 14, 2014 · A SERVICE of thanksgiving was held at St John’s, Leytonstone, on Sunday, for the life of the Revd George Parry, an army chaplain who died on D-Day, aged 29. Padre Parry, a former curate at the church, joined the Royal Army Chaplains’ Department in February 1941.
Dec 22, 2016 · The page records an extract from Parry’s obituary in The Times, written by the then Bishop of Barking. George Parry had been born in Romford in 1915, was one of the four sons of Canon Allen James Parry, who was Vicar of St Peter’s, Upton Cross.
Rev. Parry, aged 29, landed in Normandy with the 6th Airborne Division. A war correspondent reported that he was killed with a knife or bayonet while defending helpless wounded men during a German raid on a medical aid post.
- Feb 1915
- Romford
- Rev. George Edward Maule
- Parry
George Parry (1813-1873) of the Ebbw Vale Co, where he introduced significant improvements to iron and steel production, including the cup-and-cone device for feeding and sealing blast furnaces. 1813 Born at Aberystruth, Monmouthshire.
19 May 1937 - 10 Feb 2011. George Parry passed through Depot, The Parachute Regiment and Airborne Forces, in Platoon Intake 123 and qualified as a military parachutist at RAF Abingdon in 1957.
