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04/07/2021 | News release | Distributed by Public on 04/06/2021 16:45 First World War Kiwi Officer in Belgium grave identified News: 7 April 2021 New Zealand Defence Force media release. The 103-year-old mystery of an unknown New Zealand Army captain buried in a cemetery in Belgium has been solved. Grave I.E.20 at the Dochy Farm New British Cemetery has been confirmed as the final resting-place of Captain Ernest Charles Parry, 1 st Battalion Auckland Infantry Regiment, who was killed on 6 October, 1917, during the Battle of Passchendaele. Captain Parry, of Paeroa, is commemorated on the New Z...

• Source:  1 NEWS The final resting place of a New Zealand Army captain who died in World War 1 has been found in a first for the New Zealand Defence Force. Your playlist will load after this ad Ernie Parry died at the Battle of Passchendaele and 103 years later he's been found in a historic first for the NZDF. Source: Seven Sharp The remains of Ernie Parry has been found 103 years after he died at the Battle of Passchendaele Pa...

Former mayor of Fishguard, Richard Davies, with his late grandfather's Oscar medal and Royal Humane Society certificate CLEARING out an elderly relative's house has revealed tales of family heroism and tragedy for a former Fishguard mayor. Among the family artefacts Richard Davies discovered were a medal and a certificate awarded to his grandfather, Captain Henry Parry in 1915, as well as newspaper articles detailing a terrible family tragedy. Captain Parry was awarded a medal from the King of Norway for saving nine men at sea while he was an officer on the steamship the Eveline. Repo...

Subscribe here, or by clicking subscribe above! It’s June 1827, and high above the Arctic Circle, British naval officer William Edward Parry and more than 20 men are trudging over the ice from Svalbard to the North Pole. They’re hoping to be the first men to reach 90° North, but it’s not looking good. No Arctic explorer is more experienced than Parry. He’s already led three voyages to the Arctic and sailed farther through the Northwest Passage than anyone. He’s prepared to face any threat, from extreme cold, to open water, to polar bear attacks. But now, Parry is beginning to doubt...