Photo: Dorothy Hall
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