Ivan Pardoe
Born 1918 - Died 20 Apr 1945
- Service number
- NZD3042 AWMM
- WWII 3042 AWMM
- Also known as
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- Armed force / branch
- Navy AWMM
- Last rank
- Able Seaman/Military AWMM Royal New Zealand Navy AWMM
- War
- World War II, 1939-1945 AWMM
About
- Title
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- Forenames
- Ivan AWMM
- Surname
- Pardoe AWMM
- Ingoa
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- Also known as
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- Service number
- NZD3042 AWMM
- WWII 3042 AWMM
- Gender
- Male AWMM
- Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
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- Religion
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Images
Documents
About birth
- Birth
- 1918 AWMM
- Date of birth
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- Place of birth
- GisbornePublic - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 28 July 2023 - https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/casualties/ivan-pardoe & Obituary
- Birth notes
- Son of Edward and Elizabeth Mary Pardoe, of Manutuke, Gisborne.Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 28 July 2023 - https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/casualties/ivan-pardoe & Obituary
- Address before enlistment
- GisbornePublic - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 28 July 2023 - https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/casualties/ivan-pardoe & Obituary
- Post war occupation
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- Next of kin
- WW2 Father: Mr. E Pardoe, Manutuke Post Office, Gisborne AWMM
- Relationship status
- SinglePublic - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 28 July 2023 - https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/casualties/ivan-pardoe & Obituary
Wars and conflicts
- War
- World War II, 1939-1945 AWMM
- Campaign
- Japanese invasion of S E AsiaPublic - Stoney - Researcher - 4 January 2023 - RSA Review, Spring 2019
- Armed force / branch
- Navy AWMM
- Service number
- NZD3042 AWMM
- WWII 3042 AWMM
- Military service
- Royal New Zealand Navy AWMM
Hostilities Only AWMM - Royal New Zealand Navy AWMM
- Draft "B" for China Station AWMM
- HMS DragonflyPublic - Stoney - Researcher - 4 January 2023 - RSA Review, Spring 2019
- Royal New Zealand Navy AWMM
- Promotions/ Postings/ Transfers
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Military decorations
- Medals and Awards
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Training and Enlistment
- Military training
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- Branch Trade Proficiency
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- Enlistment
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- Age on enlistment
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- Occupation before enlistment
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Embarkations
- Embarkation details
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Prisoner of war
- Capture details
- WW2 POW - Japan AWMM
15 Apr 1942 AWMM
Prisoner of War, Malaya Camp AWMM - WW2 POW - Gloegoer Camp, Medan, Sumatra, Indonesia AWMM
- WW2 POW - Malaya, Singapore AWMM
- WW2 POW - Japan AWMM
- Days interned
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- Liberation date
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- POW liberation details
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- Liberation Repatriation
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- POW serial number
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Medical history
- Medical notes
- Killed or died while a Prisoner of War, Cause of Death AWMM
Died as a Prisoner of War AWMM
Last known rank
- Last rank
- Able Seaman/Military AWMM
Royal New Zealand Navy AWMM - Last rank
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Biographical information
- He was the son of Edward and Elizabeth Mary Pardoe of Manutuke, Gisborne, New Zealand
Believed to have worked on the Sumatra Railway/ AWMM - Ivan served aboard HMS Dragonfly. After escaping Singapore and en-route to Sumatra the ship was sunk off Singkep Island. They survived many hours in the water and countless strafing attacks from the Japanese. The survivors including Ivan managed to get to the island and find a boat which they used to escape to Sumatra. Once they had arrived in Sumatra they walked across half of the Island until they reached a small town called Muaro. From here they caught a train to Padang. Sadly the last ship had left and it was here that the Japanese caught up with them. They were taken to Medan in north Sumatra to the Gloergoer camp. Ivan and 2 other Kiwis, Noel Betley and Lawrence Hurndell were marched to Aceh to construct a road. Once this was completed they were transported over land to a place called Petai. This was the location of a coal mine on the Pekanbaru Death Railway. Ivan and the Aceh party worked on laying the rails for this line. Sadly Ivan died on the 20th April 1945, only 4 months before the end of the war. He was buried at camp 14A. The railway was used by the Japanese until 1946 to transport supplies and keep them out of the hands of the Indonesian Independence Army but this to disappeared into the jungle within a few years. Although the majority of the dead on this line were exhumed and moved to memorials throughout Java, the grave where Ivan Pardoe, along with 16 other Australians, Dutch, and British from 14A was lost and this is where they remain.Public - Jeffery - Researcher - 5 February 2018 - Family letters written by friends of Ivan after the war;
Pekanbaru Death Railway (2016) retrieved from
www.pekanbarudeathrailway.com
- He was the son of Edward and Elizabeth Mary Pardoe of Manutuke, Gisborne, New Zealand
About death
- Death
- 20 Apr 1945 AWMM
Age 27 AWMM - Date of death
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- Age at death
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- Place of death
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- Cause of death
- Killed or died while a Prisoner of War AWMM
- Death notes
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- Cemetery
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- Obituary
- GISBORNE PRISONER CAPTURE AT SINGAPORE Official advice has been received by Mrs Elizabeth Pardoe. Manutuke, of the death of her youngest son, Able Seaman Ivan Pardoe, while a prisoner-of-war in the hands of the Japanese. The notice states that investigations made by the R.N.Z.A.F. search unit operating from Singapore have established that Able-Seaman Pardoe was buried in the prison compound at Peti, about 20 miles from Khota Gharu, Sumatra. The report indicates that the date of death is unknown. Able-Seaman Pardoe was the son of the late Mr Edward Pardoe, and was born in Gisborne He received his education at the Manutuke School and later worked in the coal-mines of the Huntly field prior to joining the Royal New Zealand Navy. He left New Zealand for Singapore in September 1941, and was taken prisoner by the Japanese on the fall of that stronghold early the following year He communicated with his family twice in the course of his imprisonment, indicating that he was well, but the last card received from him came in 1942, and no subsequent information came to hand up to the time of the Japanese surrenderPublic - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 28 July 2023 - SUMATRA BURIAL
GISBORNE HERALD, VOLUME LXXII, ISSUE 21837, 6 OCTOBER 1945, PAGE 6 - Memorial name
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- Memorial reference
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Memorial
- Memorial name
- New Zealand Naval Memorial, Devonport Naval Base, HMNZS Philomel, Devonport, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
- Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 2 Hall of Memories AWMM
- Gisborne First World War Memorial, The Esplanade, Kaiti, Gisborne AWMM
Related objects
Sources
- External links
- Commonwealth War Graves Commission record
https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2564038
Sources Used - Record Book of Naval Personnel - c.1920-1945 - Lists Navy number, alphabetical list of names of ratings trained in England, numerical lists of officers. Archives New Zealand, R21346617, AAYT 8495 N12
https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R21346617
Further Reference
- Commonwealth War Graves Commission record
- References
- Personnel - Demobilisation - RNZN [Royal New Zealand Navy], Archives New Zealand, Wellington, N1/427 (R21465798)
- Royal New Zealand Navy List (c.1921-c.1970) - kindly provided by Ralph McNabb. This list was not collated by McNabb but was sourced from the Royal New Zealand Navy.
- Record Book of Naval Personnel - c.1920-1945 - Lists Navy number, alphabetical list of names of ratings trained in England, numerical lists of officers. Archives New Zealand, R21346617, AAYT 8495 N12
- List of Royal New Zealand Navy personnel reported prisoner of war in Japanese hands to 21 August 1945 - Archives New Zealand, Wellington, AAYT Box 11 (R21346643)
- Information on Japanese-run internment (prisoner of war) camps was kindly provided by Chris Brooks. More than 350 Japanese-run military prisoner-of-war and civilian internment and concentration camps were run throughout the "Far East" during World War II.
- Personnel - War service - Required for Royal Navy - Special requirements [Navy East Indies China], Archives New Zealand, Wellington (R21465684)
- Mason, W.W. (1954) Prisoners of war. Wellington, N.Z.: Department of Internal Affairs, War History Branch.
- Auckland Museum. Roll of Honour, Auckland Province, 1939 - 1945. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS 93/139.
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