Son of Reginald Barcroft and Margaret Alice 1911 at a private school Repton near Burton on Trent.

 

Yorkshire Regiment Biography of Officers states

After the German Spring Offensive in 1918 the 6th battalion was absorbed into the 2nd battalion and a cadre of officers from the 6th returned to Mychett Camp at Aldershot where they began reforming the 6th battalion with men from various units and regiments. Captain Parker was with the battalion on October 13th 1918 when they travelled to Dundee sailing on October 16th to join the North Russia Expeditionary Force.

The battalion landed at Murmansk in November of 1918 and in early 1919 moved to the Archangel front. March 22nd found Captain Parker and his men in Chinova where the following day they attacked the village of Bolshoi Ozerki where the French garrison had been overwhelmed by the Bolsheviks. Captain Frank Bryan Parker was killed in this action on March 23. He was buried in Bolshoi Ozerki Cemetery and is remembered today on the Archangel Memorial

 

 

 

Yorkshire Intelligencer 19/01/1920.