Alan Frank WALKDEN (aka Podge) [1910-1943]
Primary tabs
Submitted by Admin on Wed, 2022-01-26 12:00
Sex:
Male
Status:
Deceased
Mark Wavell, Joan Walkden's cousin, writes:
Her husband Frank was on the Lisbon Maru and survived initially but died of pneumonia in camp at Kobe, he is buried in the war graves cemetery in Yokohama.
Tags:
Connections:
- Alan Frank WALKDEN (aka Podge) [1910-1943] spouse of Isobel Joan WALKDEN (née MASON) [1917-2016]
Comments
Frank Alan/Alan Frank Walkden 23 June 1910 - 23 Feruary.1943
UK Probate Calendar 1947
Frank Alan Walkden aka Alan Frank Walkden of 149 Barker Road Hong Kong died 23 February 1943 on war service. probate 11 January 1947 to Isabel Joan Walkden widow.
He was the son of of Richard Benjamin Pail (sic) Walkden and Gladys Irene Williams and was born 21 June 1910 in Stoke Newington Middlesex.
RG 33: Foreign Registers and Returns, 1627-1960
Piece 011: Hong Kong: Deaths, 1941-1945
Second Lieutenant Alan Frank Walkden Hong Kong and Singapore R.A. Dodwells and Co
22 February 1943 Acute Pneumonia
774: Solomon Islands: Unaccounted for Prisoners of War, who Embarked at Singapore, 18 October 1942
From BRITSEC3 AUST PW REC GP To BAS Washington
The following is additional list of ashes received by this office. Located OSAKA POW Camp
2/Lt WALKDEN ALLEN (sic) FRANK
Marriage to Isabel in Hong Kong to Isabel Joan Mason born 28 August 1917 in Shanghai, China
Stanley camp Hong Kong. Joan was interned in Stanley camp after the Japanese invasion (Dec 1941) and was released at the end of the war in August 1945. From there she made her way back to England via flying boat from Calcutta.
In 1946 she married John Francis Batey in Newcastle Upon Tyne
Isabel Joan Batey died 6 December 2016 in Corbridge Northumberland England