Remembering Today Casualty Details | CWGC Lance Corporal GUNNELL, JOHN JORDAN HENRY Service Number 1867067 41 Fortress Coy., Royal Engineers Died 14/09/1942 Aged 31 Buried or commemorated at KRANJI WAR CEMETERY Grave Reference: 10. C. 8. Location: Singapore Son of John William and Edith Emily Gunnell; husband of Mollie Gunnell, of Lymington, Hampshire. INSCRIPTION: TIME PASSES, MEMORIES CLING
UK, Army Roll of Honour, 1939-1945 Name: John Gunnell Given Initials: J J H Rank: Lance Corporal Death Date: 14 Sep 1942 Number: 1867067 Birth Place: Southampton Residence: Hampshire Regiment at Enlistment: Royal Engineers Branch at Enlistment: Other Corps Theatre of War: Malaya Regiment at Death: Royal Engineers Branch at Death: Other Corps TD
John Jordan Henry Gunnell was born in early 1911 and is recorded in the Census of that year living with his mother Edith and his two sisters, Grace and Beatrice at 25 Dyer Rd, Southampton. His father, John William, seems to have been a merchant seaman in WW2; he died in 1953 aged 73. There's a marriage record (New Forest) in the first quarter of 1938 of John JH Gunnell to Molly Towers. In the 1939 Register, Molly is living in Lymington with an Arthur Towers - her father? - and one other person. From what I can gather, I think L/Cpl Gunnell would probably have been imprisoned in Changi; burials there were translocated to Kanji Cemetery after the war. Pat.
