DavoT Posted 2 September , 2009 Share Posted 2 September , 2009 Hi all, can any member shed any light onto the style of the naming on this star? I can't say I've ever seen this before. TIA, David Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilB Posted 2 September , 2009 Share Posted 2 September , 2009 Privately engraved IMO. Nicely done though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavoT Posted 2 September , 2009 Author Share Posted 2 September , 2009 Hi Phil, I thought that too but weren't they issued already impressed? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilB Posted 2 September , 2009 Share Posted 2 September , 2009 Yes. So to have one engraved, you needed to acquire a blank one or skim the name off someone else`s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wulsten Posted 5 September , 2009 Share Posted 5 September , 2009 Do you have any info on the chap, nice Regt history online to the 2/Ox & Bucks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilB Posted 5 September , 2009 Share Posted 5 September , 2009 It could be that the star is self-awarded. The Sept 1915 Army List shows a E L Parker Temp 2/Lt, 18th (Res) Bn West Yorks. If that`s him, he may not have got to the O&B in France till 1916. Does his medal card indicate a 14/15 (Or 14?)star? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavoT Posted 6 September , 2009 Author Share Posted 6 September , 2009 Can't seem to locate a medal card for him on Ancestry or TNA! Mind you I have missed the occasional one in the past David Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Tobin Posted 6 September , 2009 Share Posted 6 September , 2009 I couldn't find him either! I was going to look at our records at SOFO when I next go in.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavoT Posted 6 September , 2009 Author Share Posted 6 September , 2009 I couldn't find him either! Hi Kevin, that makes me feel a little better . Either his card is missing or something may be amiss here? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HarryBettsMCDCM Posted 6 September , 2009 Share Posted 6 September , 2009 From the scratches down the reverse of the Star it would appear to be a "scrubbed" star that Parker had engraved with his own details~possibly he suffered from "Mainwaring" syndrome having not served OS??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IPT Posted 6 September , 2009 Share Posted 6 September , 2009 Perhaps he was one of the estimated fifty fake British officers operating in New York in 1919. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavoT Posted 9 September , 2009 Author Share Posted 9 September , 2009 Thanks for the input chaps. Maybe he'll remain a bit of a mystery, whoever he is! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Tobin Posted 9 September , 2009 Share Posted 9 September , 2009 I have checked the OBLI chronicles for the whole of the war and cannot find a Parker. The chronicles have the OBLI bit of the army list and also regularly list the officers in the field. I have not checked any of the other Battalions yet, just 2ns Btn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Tobin Posted 10 September , 2009 Share Posted 10 September , 2009 I have checked the records at SOFO, including the medical record that has all of the 2nd Battalion Officers in and can find no trace of Mr Parker. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IPT Posted 10 September , 2009 Share Posted 10 September , 2009 There are 5 or 6 privates in the Ox and Bucks with the name E Parker. Possibly one of them may have had a touch of the Percy Toplis about him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilB Posted 10 September , 2009 Share Posted 10 September , 2009 It`s just (barely) possible that an OR called E L Parker qualified for the star, got commissioned after the war and decided to have his ultimate rank engraved on his star. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavoT Posted 11 September , 2009 Author Share Posted 11 September , 2009 The mystery still continues! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IPT Posted 11 September , 2009 Share Posted 11 September , 2009 I wonder if some sort of metal boffin could tell what was originally inscribed? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Johnson Posted 11 September , 2009 Share Posted 11 September , 2009 I wonder if some sort of metal boffin could tell what was originally inscribed? There is apparently a chance that if you x-ray the Star it will reveal the original letters, which will show up because the impressing causes thicker metal at that spot. To what extent the engraved naming will interfere with reading this is uncertain. Do you have any dentist/radiologist friends? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavoT Posted 17 September , 2009 Author Share Posted 17 September , 2009 I don't actually have the medal. It's on/was on 'you know where'! David Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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