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Killed in action in august 1945 buried in Karachi hoping to find more details.

WHALLEY, WILLIAM

Rank:
Serjeant
Service No:
3783681
Date of Death:
07/08/1946
Age:
22
Regiment/Service:
Royal Army Ordnance Corps
Grave Reference:
3. A. 7.
Cemetery:
RANCHI WAR CEMETERY
Additional Information:
Son of Edward and Rose Ellen Whalley; husband of Ellen Marie Whalley, of Westerham, Kent.

Most of this answers my question but the year of death was 1945 just before the end of the war .Thank you for the rest of the information.

Do you know of the Commonwealth War Graves Commision site?

http://www.cwgc.org/

A tree on Ancestry says he died 1945, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. It has the same parents as on the CWGC site but no wife's name.

1901
Town:Darwen

Wm Ormandy 37 - Burscough Bridge
Mary Ormandy 36 - Blackburn, Lancashire
William Ormandy 15
Mary J Ormandy 9
Richard Ormandy 6
Rose E Ormandy 1
Philip Bullen 22



1911
Street address:15 Yates Buils Blackburn

William Ormandy 47
William Ormandy 25
Mary Ridgway Ormandy 46
Richard Ormandy 16
May Jane Ormandy 20
Rose Ormandy 11
Lily Ormandy 9

William was one of 7 children all born Blackburn.
Youngest was born 1943

Military records put parents in Kent in 1945

His marriage
Marriages Mar 1944
BOND Ellen M Whalley Croydon 2a 1307

WHALLEY William Bond Croydon 2a 1307

If you get his death certificate it will give you his cause of death


First name(s) WILLIAM
Last name WHALLEY
Death year 1946
Service number 3783681
Rank Sergeant
Regiment or unit Royal Army Ordnance Corps
Record source GRO War Death Army Other Ranks (1939 to 1948)
Volume 3
Page 153
Record set British nationals armed forces deaths 1796-2005


There was another William Whalley who died in 1945 but not in India , maybe the person on ancestry picked up the wrong death


First name(s) WILLIAM
Last name WHALLEY
Death year 1945
Service number 14707525
Rank Private
Regiment or unit East Lancashire Regiment
Record source GRO War Death Army Other Ranks (1939 to 1948)
Volume 4
Page 294
Record set British nationals armed forces deaths 1796-2005

Rank:Private
Service No:14707525
Date of Death:04/01/1945
Age:19
Regiment/Service:East Lancashire Regiment 1st Bn.
Grave Reference: I. A. 8. Cemetery:HOTTON WAR CEMETERY
Additional Information:Son of Richard and Eliza Whalley, of Sutton Oak, St. Helens, Lancashire.

Hotton is in Belgium

16 August 1946 - Sevenoaks Chronicle and Kentish Advertiser - Sevenoaks

KILLED IN INDIA. WESTERHAM GIRL BEREAVED.
Mrs. M. Whalley, younger daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. Bond, of Vicarage Hill, Westerham, received official notification at the weekend, that her husband Sergeant William Whalley, R.A.O.C., died in India, on the previous Wednesday, August 7th, from abdominal wounds. Sergt. Whalley, who was a native of Blackburn, was 22 years of age, he had been serving in India for the last ten months, and was looking forward to returning to this Country in October, and to being demobilised by the end of the year.
No details have so far been received as to the manner in which he received his wounds. In addition to his wife, he leaves two young children.

Chris :)

I do hope that Amy returns to her thread. Unfortunately she had marked it as answered before this new info had been found proving that he did indeed die in 1946.

For Ordnance read repair and looking after ammunition and mending broken equipment also think bomb disposal and how dangerous it could be. Could tie up with wounds i.e. working at bench or floor level.

Or query unrest in India at the time although it was mostly against each other due to religion prior to independence.

Have PM'd Amy Elizabeth to come back to thread and see new info.

I also PM'd Amy Elizabeth yesterday. The message was opened but no response.

Great minds and all that - I too sent pm regarding returning to thread.

I had a reply and Ann Elizabeth has computer problems. I asked if she knew how to get back to thread, but as yet Ann Elizabeth has not come back. It may be she will in time.

Hope to hear from you Ann Elizabeth - we all want to help you to help yourself!

Sappho

Amy has another thread which she started yesterday and replied on and she also replied briefly on this one, so she is around and knows how to return to a thread..........

http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards/board/ancestors/thread/1354248

I wonder why she won't respond on this thread to let us know the outcome?