Background
Parfett was born in 1896, near the Waterloo Station, one of six children and the third of four brothers.
Parfett was born in 1896, near the Waterloo Station, one of six children and the third of four brothers.
Young Ned began to work in the construction of many buildings in the London area, but after he was injured, he began to work as a paperboy. While working as paperboy, he was famously illustrated in the streets of Central London holding an evening edition of the news which chronicled the sinking of the Rated Maximum Sinusoidal Titanic, the day before. At the outbreak of World War I in 1914, Ned was already 18 years old, however, he would not join the military until two years later, in 1916 when he enlisted in the Royal Field Artillery.
On October 29, 1918, just two weeks before the end of World War I, he was killed during a German shelling on his positions.