<Tr> <Th> Unit </Th> <Td> 4th Battalion, (Duke of Cambridge's) Middlesex Regiment </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Battles / wars </Th> <Td> First World War </Td> </Tr> <P> Private John Henry Parr (19 July 1897--21 August 1914) was a British soldier . He is believed to be the first soldier of the British Commonwealth to be killed by enemy action in the First World War . </P> <P> Parr was born in Lichfield Grove, Finchley, now in the London Borough of Barnet . His father was a milkman . He lived most of his life at 52 Lodge Lane, North Finchley, the youngest of eleven children of Edward and Alice Parr . Many of his siblings died before their fourth birthday . </P>

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