See also

John Cyril Parmenter (1905-1943)

Individual Events and Attributes

  • Birth:

  • Q1 1905

  • Reigate, Surrey, England1 2

  • Census:

  • 2 Apr 1911 (age 6)

  • 23a St. John's Road, Redhill, Surrey, England2

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  • son living in four rooms with his parents Walker and Flora, sister Gladys, aunt Florence Goldsmith, and his widowed grandmother Ann Wakeford. Born in Reigate Surrey

  • Census absence:

  • 19 Jun 1921 (age 16)

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  • Death:

  • 18 May 1943 (age 38)

  • Pomalaa, East Celebes3 4 5

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  • Cause: of malaria whilst a prisoner of war in Japanese hands

    an Able Seaman born on 14th December 1904 at Horley Surrey having been captured when HMS Exeter, a heavy cruiser, was sunk on 1st March 1942 during the Second Battle of the Java Sea

  • War Memorial:

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  • Plymouth Naval Memorial, Plymouth, Devon, England4

  • Probate:

  • 23 Sep 1946

  • Probate Registry, Winchester, Hampshire, England5

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  • of 39 Guildford Road Aldershot Hampshire died 18th May 1943 on war service, administration of effects of £159 1s 9d (~£5,500 in 2017) to Flora Parmenter (wife of Walker Cyril Parmenter)

Sources

1.

England and Wales Birth Index 1837 - 2021, (on-line at www.gro.gov.uk, www.findmypast.co.uk and www.ancestry.co.uk). Reigate 1905 quarter:1 volume:2a page:215. Cit. Date: 23 November 2022.

2.

England and Wales Census 1911, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). National Archive reference:RG14 piece:3228 class:RG78 piece:121 registration district:37 sub-district:2 enumeration district:21 schedule:126. Cit. Date: 23 November 2022.

3.

FindMyPast Registers Of Reports Of Deaths: Naval Ratings, (on-line at www.findmypast.co.uk). National Archive ref :ADM 104/135 folio:2971 no:D/J 96924. Cit. Date: 25 November 2022.

4.

Commonwealth War Grave Commission, (on-line at www.cwgc.org). Plymouth Naval memorial panel:101 column:2. Cit. Date: 25 November 2022.

5.

UK Government Probate Service, UK Government Find a Will, (on-line at www.probatesearch.service.gov.uk, www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). Winchester 1946 page:274. Cit. Date: 25 November 2022.