Edward Nigel Park

a Soldier of the Border Regiment / Remembered with Honour
Edward Nigel Park
Edward Nigel Park
Edward Nigel Park
Military
Rank 2nd Lieutenant
Battalion 6th Battalion / 6 October 1915[1]
Regiment Border Regiment
Transferred Somaliland Camel Corps[2] / B Company[3] / Rank of Captain[2]
Honours Order of the British Empire / 1933
Decorations Military Cross / 1916 / Mention in Battalion War Diary[4]
Personal
Residence(s) Dalston Hall, Cumberland[5]
Nationality English
Remembrance
Casualty Type Survived the War
Media
Biography
Post war Edward became a Colonial District Officer for the Somaliland Protectorate[6]prior to his appointment as the district commissioner for Hargeysa in 1937.[7]
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References and notes
The information in our Rolls of Honour have been compiled using two primary sources: HMSO's Soldiers Died in the Great War 1914-19, Volume 39, The Border Regiment and the Commonwealth War Graves Commission database. These have been used for consistency to ensure that any transcriptions are as accurate as possible, with the exception of discrepancies between the two sources and typos that occur from time to time. Additional sources, where used, have been referenced separately below. For soldiers that survived the war, their details do not contain the memorial scroll and are not listed in the Rolls of Honour. However, each individual has his own remembrance page to be remembered with honour.

For the Lonsdale Battalion Roll of Honour a secondary and carefully researched source, The Lonsdale War Grave Project, has been used to fill in some gaps with information not available in the aforementioned sources. Permission has been kindly granted by the owner for use here. For further information about the fields used above see Notes and definitions for soldier remembrance pages.

  1. 6th Battalion War Diary, October 1915
  2. 2.0 2.1 Medal Index Card of Edward Nigel Park. The National Archives. WO372/15/108534. Accessed 26 April, 2020
  3. British Somaliland March 1915 – October 1919. Minor Operations against the 'Mad Mullah'. Accessed 26th April, 2020
  4. 6th Battalion War Diary, October 1916
  5. Cumberland News WW1 Soldiers. Accessed 26 April, 2020
  6. "1933 Birthday Honours". Wikipedia: The free encyclopaedia. Accessed 26 April, 2020
  7. Jama Mohamed (2000). The 1937 Somaliland Camel Corps Mutiny: A Contrapuntal Reading. International Journal of African Studies. Vol.33, No.3, p.617, footnote 19.
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