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SUNDERLAND

Parkinson, R.C., P.O., 1943

Photo: Dorothy Hall

On Runnymede Memorial is the name of 149958 Pilot Officer Ronald Chesterton Parkinson serving with the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve who died 18/07/1943.

Son of John Robinson Parkinson and Phyllis Edith Parkinson, of Sunderland, Co. Durham.

In Hetton Cemetery is a family headstone which reads:-

Sacred
to the memory of
my dear wife
Frances Hepple
who died 8th March 1942 aged 70 years
also George Chesterton
husband of the above
who died 4th October 1949 aged 78 years
also grandson
Ronald Parkinson (Bomber pilot)
Missing July 17th 1943 aged 21 years

Ronald Chesterton Parkinson is remembered in Sunderland on S140.078 and in a RAF Book of Remembrance


The CWGC entry for Pilot Officer Parkinson

If you know more about this person, please send the details to janet@newmp.org.uk