Alfred Ernest Dickenson Banks (1876 - 1942)

Born 14 Sep 1876 in Dublin, Ireland

Husband of Lily Eva (O'Kelly) Banks — married 24 May 1914 in Guston, Kent, England

Died 1 Jul 1942 at age 65 in At Sea

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Biography

Alfred Banks was a Prisoner of War during World War II.

Alfred Banks died as a prisoner of war on the Montevideo Maru during the Second World War.

Alfred Ernest Dickenson Banks was born in Dublin, Ireland about 1877, the son of Joseph Banks, a musician.

He married Lilly Eva O'Kelly in Lambeth (London) in 1914. There were no children.

He moved to the Territory of New Guinea in Nov 1920. He was a golf professional and the owner of the Rabaul Pacific Hotel in Rabaul. When the Japanese invaded in Jan 1942 he was captured at Kokopo, near Rabaul and internes as a civilian prisoner.

He died on board the "Montevideo Maru" when it was torpedoed and sunk off the coast of the Philippines on 01 Jul 1942, en route from Rabaul to Hainan, where he was sestined for forced labour.

Sources

• Marriage - FreeBMD.org.uk - Marriages Jun 1914; Banks, Alfred E D; O'Kelly; Lambeth; 1d 675

• Chelsea Pensioner (maybe) - "United Kingdom, Chelsea Pensioners' Service Records, 1760-1913," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V5CD-K3R : 10 December 2017), Alfred Ernest Banks, ; from "Chelsea Pensioners' Service Records 1760-1913," database and images, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : n.d.); citing WO 97, The National Archives, Kew, Surrey.

• Death Form - National Archives of Australia - Defence - General - Information of deaths for persons lost on the MONTEVIDEO MARU - https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=102239&S=12

• Commonwealth War Graves Commission - https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/3173219/alfred-ernest-dickenson-banks/