Dick ApSimon, early 1940s

Richard Douglas ApSimon

Birth Name ApSimon, Richard Douglas
Nick Name Dick
Gramps ID I0039
Gender male
Age at Death 51 years, 3 months, 28 days

Events

Event Date Place Description Sources
Birth [E0060] 4/9/1913 Wirral, Cheshire Registered Q4. 1 2 3a
Education [E0146]   Calday Grange Grammar School, West Kirby, Wirral, Cheshire AMA says paid for by TTA, but surely free. 4
Occupation [E0408] estimated between 1935 and 1956   Merchant navy. Engineer, first class, 1940, Liverpool. WWII: Arrivals at New York as 3rd Engineer on the SS Rimutaka (SS Mongolia (1922)) on the run between Avonmouth/Liverpool and Auckland/Wellington via the Panama Canal between 1943 and 1945 with service consistent with late 1935/early 1936 start. 6'0", 156 lb, no tattoos... Discharge number:R.136916. Post-WWII: 1947, Suffolk; 1956, Avanca. HTA takes the 1947 voyage as emigration to New Zealand. 5 6 7 8
Death [E0061] 1965 Brentwood, Essex Registered Q1. 1 9 10

Parents

Relation to main person Name Birth date Death date Relation within this family (if not by birth)
Father Estyn Douglas ApSimon [I0015]30/8/18859/1/1962
Mother Janet Reid [I0024]29/5/18863/1973
         Richard Douglas ApSimon 4/9/1913 1965
    Sister     Jean Elizabeth ApSimon [I0040] 16/10/1918 1984

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