PARKINSON, John Archibald

Known as: 
Jack
Rank: 
Marine
Unit / Base: 
41RM Commando
Regiment/Corps: 
Royal Marines
Service: 
Royal Navy
Number: 
PO/X 113753
Born: 
Wednesday, December 31, 1924
Birthplace: 
Brighton Sussex
Died : 
Tuesday, June 6, 1944
Killed in action or died of wounds
Age: 
19
Cemetery/Memorial: 
Marine John Parkinson died during operations at Normandy, France.
Son of Archibald and Ivy Florence Parkinson, of Brighton, Sussex.
In 1939 he was employed as a drilling machinist (electrical fittings), single, and residing with his parents at 48 Wiston Road, Whitehawk, Brighton.
 
Sources
CWGC.
Registers Of Reports Of Deaths: Naval Ratings / National Archives file ADM104/135.
The 1939 Register covering Brighton.
Enquiry from his brother Edward posted in Commando Association newsletter 87 (1988).
 
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