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Ivan Pardoe

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Portrait of Able Seaman Ivan Pardoe, Auckland Weekly News, 7 November 1945. Sir George Grey Special Collections, Auckland Libraries, AWNS-19451107-26-7. Image may be subject to copyright restrictions.

Portrait of Able Seaman Ivan Pardoe, Auckland Weekly News, 7 November 1945. Sir George Grey Special …

Identity

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Ivan AWMM
  • Surname
    Pardoe AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
  • Service number
    • NZD3042 AWMM
    • WWII 3042 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
  • Religion

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    1918 AWMM
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
    Gisborne Public - 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
    Gisborne Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 28 July 2023 - https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/casualties/ivan-pardoe & Obituary
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    WW2 Father: Mr. E Pardoe, Manutuke Post Office, Gisborne AWMM
  • Relationship status
    Single Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 28 July 2023 - https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/casualties/ivan-pardoe & Obituary

Service

Wars and conflicts

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  • War
    World War II, 1939-1945 AWMM
  • Campaign
    Japanese invasion of S E Asia Public - Stoney - Researcher - 4 January 2023 - RSA Review, Spring 2019
  • Armed force / branch
    Navy AWMM
  • Service number
    • NZD3042 AWMM
    • WWII 3042 AWMM
  • Military service
  • Promotions/ Postings/ Transfers

Military decorations

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Training and Enlistment

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  • Military training
  • Branch Trade Proficiency
  • Enlistment
  • Occupation before enlistment
  • Age on enlistment

Embarkations

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  • Embarkation details

Prisoner of war

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  • Capture details
    • WW2 POW - Japan RNZN POW (R21346643)
      15 April 1942 AWMM
      Prisoner of War, Malaya Camp AWMM
    • WW2 POW - Gloegoer Camp, Medan, Sumatra, Indonesia Chris Brooks POW research
    • WW2 POW - Malaya, Singapore Chris Brooks POW research
  • Days interned
  • Liberation date
  • Liberation Repatriation
  • POW liberation details
  • POW serial number

Medical history

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  • Medical notes
    Killed or died while a Prisoner of War, Cause of Death AWMM
    Died as a Prisoner of War AWMM

Last known rank

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Biographical information

Biographical information

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    • 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
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Death

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  • Death
    20 April 1945 AWMM
    Age 27 AWMM
    Sumatra, Indonesia AWMM
  • Date of death
  • Age at death
  • Place of death
  • Cause of death
    Killed or died while a Prisoner of War AWMM
  • Death notes
  • Cemetery
  • Cemetery name
  • Grave reference
  • 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 surrender Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 28 July 2023 - SUMATRA BURIAL
    GISBORNE HERALD, VOLUME LXXII, ISSUE 21837, 6 OCTOBER 1945, PAGE 6
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  • Memorial reference

Memorials

Memorial

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  • 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

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Sources

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  • References
    • Personnel - Demobilisation - RNZN [Royal New Zealand Navy], Archives New Zealand, Wellington, N1/427 (R21465798) AWMM
    • 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. AWMM
    • 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 AWMM
    • 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) AWMM
    • 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. AWMM
    • Personnel - War service - Required for Royal Navy - Special requirements [Navy East Indies China], Archives New Zealand, Wellington (R21465684) AWMM

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DateFirst namesLocationRelationshipContact
28 July 2023Lorraine MonaGisborne Researcher
04 January 2023StoneyTuakauResearcher
05 February 2018JefferyMasterton, New ZealandResearcher
20 February 2017Montess KuariWellington, NZDirect descendant

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