PARKER, Richard Grey Vernon
| Service Number: | NX71143 |
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| Enlisted: | 14 June 1941 |
| Last Rank: | Captain |
| Last Unit: | 2nd/10th Field Ambulance |
| Born: | Rose Bay, New South Wales, Australia, 31 March 1913 |
| Home Town: | Rose Bay, Woollahra, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | University of Sydney |
| Occupation: | Medical Practitioner |
| Died: | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 30 March 1984, aged 70 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: | Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial |
World War 2 Service
| 14 Jun 1941: | Enlisted NX71143 | |
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| 13 Dec 1945: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Captain, NX71143, 2nd/10th Field Ambulance |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Son of Leslie Richard PARKER Jeannie Elizabeth nee MOLLISON, 738 New South Head Road, Rose Bay, NSW
Husband of Patricia PARKER nee DOYLE
Graduated from the University of Sydney in 1939 with Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery.
Richard Parker was the doctor at Kanyu 3 (Hellfire Pass). He has been described as the most important person at K3. He took care of the Anti Tankers amongst the other soldiers at K3. It was his decision who was fit enough to work each day. A totally uneviable job. Doing much the same as Weary Dunlop with no medicine or tools.
He travelled to Nagasaki Japan on the Raishin Maru, named by the passengers as the Byoki Maru, Sick Ship.
One month before the nuclear bomb, the whole group were moved to Fukuoka camp #21, at Nakama 50 km away.
He returned to Australia.
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