PARRY, Bryn St Pierre CBE 1956-2023

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He was s of Lt-Col Robin George Richard PARRY MC 1918-61 and Doreen Constance PAINTER. He m 1981 Emma Christina b 1959 d of Myles Walter PONSONBY 1924-99 (gt gs of 2^nd Baron DE MAULEY 1815-96, 2xgt gs of 4^th Earl of BESSBOROUGH 1781-1847, 3xgt gs of 10^th Earl of WESTMORLAND 1759-1841, etc etc) and Ann Veronica Theresa d of Brig-Gen Francis Herbert MAYNARD CB DSO MC 1881-1979 and Ethel Lizzie BATES 1884-1978, and had a son and two daus.

Obit in the Times of 13 April 2023:

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Bryn Parry obituary

Cartoonist whose charity Help for Heroes, set up with his wife, seized the public imagination and raised millions for veterans

… both Parry and his wife had been appointed OBE for their services to charity. Parry himself was recently invested with the CBE at home by the King’s representative [see link below].

He is survived by Emma, the sister of a fellow officer, whom he married in 1981, and by his son Tom, who followed him into uniform, and two daughters, Sophie, a charity worker, and Louisa, who works with her mother in the family’s farm shop.

Bryn St Pierre Parry was born in 1956 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, the son of Doreen (née Painter) and Robin Parry, a career army officer who fought in Burma in the Second World War with the Gurkhas and whose family’s military roots dated back to 1645. Sadly Bryn had little opportunity to know him. His father was killed on exercise in Germany in 1961 and his only memories of him were throwing him a ball in the back garden and seeing him parachute out of an aircraft.

After Parry Sr’s death, Peter Ackerman, a former subaltern of his, who farmed in Cornwall on the Lizard near Helston, invited his widow, Bryn and his brother Hayden to live with them. They spent three years living on the farm in a caravan. “Then Mum converted a calving barn and we lived in that,” he recalled…

Bryn Parry CBE, co-founder of Help for Heroes and cartoonist, was born on September 22, 1956. He died of pancreatic cancer on April 12, 2023, aged 66

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/bryn-parry-obituary-mpqvxnf5r

He was promoted to CBE in Feb 2023: https://groups.google.com/g/peerage-news/c/utyiUZmPB2M/m/Im1NOJG6AAAJ