First World War 1914 “Mons” Trio – Private Thomas Parratt, 2nd Bn. Yorkshire Regiment – W.I.A. 1916
1914 “Mons” Star – 3-8190 PTE T. PARRATT. 2/YORK:R.
British War Medal – 3.8190 PTE. T. PARRATT. YORK. R.
Victory Medal – 3/8190 PTE. T. PARRATT. YORK. R.
Thomas Parratt was born in 1881 at Morley, Yorkshire, the son of Joseph Parratt and Emma (née Padgett). He was raised in the West Riding during a period of intense industrial activity, with textile manufacture and manual labour forming the backbone of employment in the district.
On 3 April 1905, he married Florence Evelyn Hetherington at Liverpool. By the time of the 1911 Census, Thomas was residing in Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire, recorded as married and employed as a general labourer. That same year their son, Alfred Parratt, was born in Leeds.
At the outbreak of the Great War he was serving with the 2nd Battalion, Yorkshire Regiment (Alexandra, Princess of Wales’s Own), a Regular battalion that formed part of the British Expeditionary Force. He proceeded to France on 14 November 1914, joining the battalion during the early and costly phase of trench warfare that followed the First Battle of Ypres.
He served on the Western Front throughout this formative period of the war and remained with the battalion until he was returned home. Thomas Parratt was formally discharged on 22 May 1916 due to wounds, bringing his military service to an end after approximately eighteen months of overseas duty.
He returned to civilian life in Yorkshire, where he remained with his family. Thomas Parratt died on 25 December 1920, aged approximately 39.
Thomas Parratt’s service represents that of an early-war Regular soldier of the Yorkshire Regiment, deployed to France in November 1914 and ultimately discharged as a result of wounds sustained during the hard fighting of the war’s opening campaigns.
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