Alfred Stanley Parsons
Forename(s): Alfred Stanley
Surname: Parsons
Lighthouse KeeperDate of birth: 8 Jul 1884
Date of death: 6 Oct 1937
Date of burial: 11 Oct 1937
Age at death: 53 years
Address: 'Trefusis' Osborne Road, East Cowes
Died at: London Hospital, Stepney
Section: A - Cemetery map
Plot No: 1460 Section map of plots
Burial Register entry: Kingston 10066
Entered service with Trinity House on 3rd July 1905. Served at Blackwall until 1907 when he became assistant L/H keeper at Bardsey Lighthouse. He then went on to serve at Lizard Lighthouse 1910, Beachy Head Lighthouse 1913 and at St. Catherine's Lighthouse in 1917. In 1929 he served at the Nab Tower Lighthouse until 1933 when he briefly served as a Principal Keeper at Longships Lighthouse and then ( at the same rank) at Beachy Head Lighthouse.
Parents of Wilfred John Parsons, F/L RAF 158 squadron
Casualty of WW2
Died in Denmark in crash of Halifax bomber returning from raid
Remembered on parish war memorial St James Church, EC
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Inscription
IN LOVING MEMORY OFRABINA
THE DEARLY BELOVED WIFE OF
A S PARSONS
DIED JANUARY 12th 1934
AGED 46 YEARS
‘sleep beloved sleep’
In Loving Memory
Of
ALFRED STANLEY PARSONS
Died October 6th 1937
AGED 53 YEARS
‘how strange it is
that those we love the best
seem just those god calls home to rest
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