John Wakelin INGHAM

INGHAM, John Wakelin

Service Number: 22500
Enlisted: 19 September 1938
Last Rank: Leading Stoker
Last Unit: HMAS Sydney (II) - D48 WW2
Born: North Adelaide, SA, 8 May 1920
Home Town: North Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Body Builder General Motors Holden
Died: Killed in Action, Indian Ocean, 20 November 1941, aged 21 years
Cemetery: No known grave - "Known Unto God"
At Sea
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Carnarvon HMAS Sydney II Memorial, Carnarvon Walk of Remembrance, Geraldton HMAS Sydney II Honour Roll, Plymouth Naval Memorial to the Missing / Lost at Sea
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19 Sep 1938: Enlisted Royal Australian Navy, Leading Stoker, 22500, HMAS Sydney (II) - D48 WW2

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Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

Son of John William and Florence May Ingham; husband of Patricia Delcey Ingham, of Nedlands, Western Australia.

Leadine Stoker John Ingham, of Strangways place, North Adelaide, was 21, and had been in the navy for three years. A son of Mr. J. W. Ingham, a  returned soldier, and of the late Mrs. Ingham, he was married only three days before the Sydney left Australia recently. A former employee at Holden's, he was fond of soccer and fishing.