Thomas Henry Parry Thomas Henry Parry DSO , DL ( 1881 – 8 October 1939 ) was a Welsh Liberal politician , lawyer and soldier . Date of birth . One usually reliable source shows Parry ’ s date of birth as 21 April 1878 , however The Times newspaper in its obituary of Parry reported he was aged 58 at death making his date of birth 1881 . This is also the date given in the publication " Who was Who " . This date seems the more likely as it was reported at the time Parry was adopted as the Liberal candidate for the Flint Burghs , by - election in 1913 that he was aged 32 years . His age at death was also given as 58 years in the " Law Journal " . Birth and education . Parry was born in Mold in Flintshire the son of Thomas Parry JP . He was educated at University College , Aberystwyth and Christ ' s College , Cambridge where he received his MA and LL . B degrees with honours . Law and the Army . Parry was called to the Bar at the Inner Temple and practised as a member of Chester and North Wales Circuit . At the outbreak of the First World War , Parry enlisted and was a subaltern in the 5th Royal Welch Fusiliers , Territorials . He served in the European theatre , Gallipoli , Egypt and Palestine between 1914 and 1919 . He was wounded at Suvla Bay and hospitalised in Cairo . By the time of his injury at Suvla , where he also contracted frostbite , Parry had risen to the rank of Captain . He was also wounded three times in action in Gaza in which conflict he won the Distinguished Service Order in 1917 . For his bravery in other actions Parry was mentioned in despatches and won the Order of the Nile . After the war , Parry continued to be associated with the Royal Welch Fusiliers . By November 1918 he had achieved the rank of Major , by May 1919 he had risen to the rank of Colonel and by August 1919 he was Lieutenant - Colonel . He ended up Lieutenant - Colonel Commanding the 5 / 6 Royal Welch Fusiliers and was Military Member of the Flintshire Territorial Force Association . Politics . Parry entered Parliament at a by - election in January 1913 following the death of the sitting Liberal member for Flint Burghs , James Woolley Summers . The constituency included Parry ’ s home town of Mold where he was a prominent lawyer and he was elected with a majority of 211 votes over the Unionist , J H Roberts – as usual in these contests a reduced majority from the previous election when Summers had a majority of 509 . The constituency disappeared in boundary changes in 1918 so Parry transferred to the county seat of Flintshire . Parry received the coalition government coupon at the 1918 general election and was returned unopposed At the 1922 general election Parry faced Labour and Unionist opponents but held the seat . Labour did not contest the seat at the 1923 election but again Parry held off a challenge from the Tories . He was unable to campaign in Flintshire at the 1924 general election through illness brought on as a result of his war wounds and the seat passed into Conservative hands . In 1922 , Parry had been appointed as Deputy Lieutenant of Flintshire . One of his other duties was as a member of the Regional Pension Advisory Committee for Wales . Death . Parry died at his home in Mold on 8 October 1939 having been ill with pneumonia .