1923
1928
William Parker & Blanche Violet
Bridge Hotel, High Street, Shoreham
Entered Form 1 in April 1932 and left in April 1935 when in MIVB.
Form positions appear in "Our Record" volumes 102-110
House is not known.
Apprentice
M.V. King Malcolm (London) Merchant Navy
Died Friday 31st October 1941
Age 17
Tower Hill Memorial
Memorial
London
His name is also entered on Lancing war memorial
KING MALCOLM LOST
“MV. KING MALCOLM O.N. 148713, built in 1925 and registered at Cardiff, Wales. The MV. King Malcolm was under contract to the British Admiralty and at the time of her demise was carrying potash taken on at Sydney, N.S.
According to the Registry of Shipping and Seamen from Cardiff, Wales they had sailed to Freetown, Sierra Leone; Table Bay, South Africa; Suez; Barry, Wales and Sydney, N.S.
It was on the return journey to Britain that John lost his life] along with the other 37 crewmembers on board, when a German submarine torpedoed them at 47 degrees 40 minutes North, 51 degrees 15 minutes West.
It is unclear which U-boat may have been responsible. Research has discovered two possible scenarios.
Firstly, it could have been the U-106 commanded by Capt. Rasch, one of the top U-boat commanders of the war, decorated for top tonnage sunk. Capt. Rasch went on to prowl the seas until the end of the war. He was patrolling when he spotted the King Malcolm and ended her life on October 28, 1941.
It was claimed that it went down in three minutes with no survivors. However, a 'lost committee’ determined the date to be October31.
The second possibility, recorded in Kilter’s U-Boat War, The Hunters 1939-42, attributes the sinking to the new V11C U-374, the only “Mordbrenner” boat left in Newfoundland waters by October 31, 1941.
Unno von Fischel commanded it, age 25, son of a WWl U-boat commander who was an Admiral in the Kriegsmarine.
Thirty-three days out from Kiel, on his maiden patrol, von Fischel was also critically low on fuel. The luckless hunt for ON 28 (convoy) had drawn him 50 miles SE of Cape Race, Newfoundland. There, while preparing to depart for France, he found and hit a lone 5,100 ton gross British freighter, the MV. King Malcolm, which sank in 30 seconds. It went down before it could radio an alarm.
Young von Fichel and his sub later went to the bottom of the Mediterranean compliments of a British sub.