Alan Frank WALKDEN (aka Podge) [1910-1943]

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Names
Given
Alan Frank
Family
Walkden
Alias / nickname
Podge
Sex
Male
Status
Deceased
Born
Date
Birthplace (town, state)
Stoke Newington, Middlesex
Birthplace (country)
England
Died
Date
Cause of death
Acute Pneumonia

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.

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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