Leatherhead War Memorials: Mark Allen von Bergen

Town Memorial World War II

Lieutenant VON BERGEN RN, Mark Allen: Age 22
H.M. Submarine Parthian
Date of Death: 11/08/1943
Son of Carl Wahlgren von Bergen and Mary Barbara Satow von Bergen, of Leatherhead, Surrey.
Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 72, Column 3.
Cemetery: PORTSMOUTH NAVAL MEMORIAL

Mark Von Bergen has no known grave. He is commemorated on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial which is situated on Southsea Common.

HMS Parthian (Lt. C.A. Pardoe, R.N.R.) is presumed mined in Adriatic late July / early August 1943. Having sailed from Malta on 22nd July for patrol west of Greece in the southern Adriatic she was ordered to patrol off Otranto on 26th July 1943. She was again given a new area to patrol on the 28th. She was reported overdue at Beirut on 11th August 1943. Most likely she was mined off Brindisi. The date given as lost (11 August 1943) is the date she was reported missing.¹

Another source² notes that her nickname was Peanut (the letters PN appeared on her conning tower).

Mark von Bergen's father was a much loved local physician who served on the board of the Leatherhead hospital built in 1940. Dr von Bergen advised Charles Leach in the acquisition of the site from Mrs. Still's Windfield estate; a ward was named after him.³

Sources
1. HM Submarine Parthian P Class N75 website
2. Abysso website
3. History of Leatherhead, Edwina Vardey

Links
Commonwealth War Graves Commission entry
HM Submarine Parthian
HM Submarine Parthian P Class N75
Parthian Class submarines (I)
Parthian Class submarines (II)

the website editor would like to add further information on this casualty
e.g. a photo of him, of his name on the Portsmouth Memorial
and of any recollections within his family

last updated 29 Jul 2004