After his arrival in Perth, Yorkshireman Joseph Parkin played for City Rangers in 1913 and 1914. He enlisted in early 1915 and saw action on the Gallipoli Peninsula where he received a gunshot wound to the nose on 31 July 1915. He contracted enteric fever in Egypt in December 1915 and was invalided to Perth. On 16 December 1916 he departed the port of Fremantle, this time for the Western Front. On 10 August 1918 he was wounded for a second time, this time in France, with a gunshot to the left shoulder. Jospeph Parkin was finally discharged from the AIF in April 1919. He married twice and died in Perth in 1955 at the age of 65.
City Rangers, City United
WA
Joseph Percy Parkin
