John Walton FOULKES

FOULKES, John Walton

Service Number: F3660
Enlisted: 26 September 1941
Last Rank: Able Seaman
Last Unit: HMAS Canberra (I)
Born: Birmingham, England, 2 May 1923
Home Town: Fremantle, Fremantle, Western Australia
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Not yet discovered
Died: Killed in Action, Off Savo Island, Savo Island, Solomon Islands, Pacific Islands, 9 August 1942, aged 19 years
Cemetery: Not yet discovered
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Fairbridge War Memorial
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World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939: Involvement Royal Australian Navy, Stoker 2/c, F3660, HMAS Canberra (I)
26 Sep 1941: Enlisted Royal Australian Navy, Able Seaman, F3660

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Biography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon

Stoker 2nd Class Foulkes, Service Number F3660 was 19 and the son of Joseph and Doris Foulkes, of Handsworth, Birmingham. He was lost on H.M.A.S. Canberra [Royal Australian Naval Reserve]

 

Biography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon

The official Point of Commemoration is the Plymouth Naval Memorial, Plymouth, Devon, England, United Kingdom.

Panel 76, Column 2.

There are more than1850 Australian casualties commemorated there.