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JENKINS, JOHN EDWARD

Medjez-El-Bab War Cemetery, by permission Commonwealth War Graves Commission.Gunner 1641447

Royal Artillery 152 Bty., 51 Lt. A.A. Regt.

Died 16-February-1943 aged 31

Son of George John and Emma Evelyn Jenkins. Mother Emma Warren married George John Jenkins in 1909 and John Edward was born in 1911 in Tottenham.

The father's occupation was something to do with making scientific instruments.
Husband of Violet Gertie Jenkins, of Banstead, Surrey.

We have not been able to find John living locally but his widow is recorded as living at 76 Commonfield Road with her family in 1945. Both she and her family (parents and brother) were resident at that address under her maiden name (Sigsworth) in the pre-war years. It was not uncommon for relatives to have a casualty added to the memorial where the relative lived.


Grave Reference: 10. H. 4.

MEDJEZ-EL-BAB WAR CEMETERY Tunisia.


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Source :

Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

Ancestry.com.

 

JOHNSON, EDWARD OSBORNE BISSETT

Edward Osborne Bissett Johnson, All Saints Church, Banstead. Serjeant 6665016

Gordon Highlanders 1st Bn. The London Scottish

Died 18-October-1946 aged 44

Edward Osbourne Bisset Johnson was born in Solihull in 1902.

Son of Edward Henry and Jeannie Isabella Clark Johnson.

Husband of Dorothy Bissett Johnson, of Banstead.

Grave Reference: S.E. of Church.

BANSTEAD (ALL SAINTS) CHURCHYARD

Source : Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
All Saints Church, Banstead, Surrey.
Family research by Barbara Rough - Could only trace birth record.
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Last Update 12 Jan 2007 (Birth details)

 

JOHNSON, ALFRED WILLIAM HENRY

Alfred William Henry Johnson, All Saints Banstead.Private T/133935

Royal Army Service Corps (Driver)

Died 17-December-1941 aged 28 Midhurst district of Sussex

Son of Derek and Florence Johnson.
Husband of Gladys Lillian Johnson, of Pallion, Sunderland, Co. Durham.

Albert was born born 31 Aug 1913 in the Epsom registration district and his mother's maiden name was Folkard (the Folkards helped build Diceland Road and came to Banstead in the 1880s).

He married Gladys L Turner in Mid-Surrey district in Spring 1936 and their son Denis W was born in Mid-Surrey District Spring 1937. Son Alfred R K (evidently known as Keith per CWGC) was born in Summer 1940 in Mid-Surrey.

The 1939 Register shows the family at 52 Diceland Road with Alfred working as a lorry driver.

Gladys is recorded as born on 13 Jun 1915 and in 1939 she was a domestic worker (the register shows the surname Johnson later changed to Hildrew suggesting she remarried after Alfred's death.

Alfred died in King Edward VII Sanatorium, Midhurst, Sussex, on 17th December 1941. He was 28 years old. He was a motor lorry driver serving in the R.A.S.C. (T/133935) and his address was recorded as 52 Diceland Road.

He died from pyelonephritis (a kidney/urinary tract infection) and abscesses on his spine and in his lungs. The cause of these is not recorded on his death certificate but as there is no mention of an operation (after which infection might have set in) it seems most likely that he picked up an E. Coli (or similar) infection somehow which spread throughout his body and overwhelmed him.

Grave location: North of Tower.

BANSTEAD (ALL SAINTS) CHURCHYARD

Sources :

Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
All Saints Churchyard, Banstead, Surrey.
1939 register
death certificate
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