JACK ROE BEGG
Image from the Suffolk Chronicle & Mercury – 1917.
Born: 1895, Ipswich.
Presumed Dead: 15th October 1916; age 22; KiA – during an attack against Mild Trench, north east of the village of Gueudecourt, which took place during the latter stages of what is commonly referred to as the Battle of the Somme.
Residence: Mistley, Essex.
Enlistment Location: Colchester, Essex: 7th September 1914. Employed at a Xylonite Factory.
Disembarked: Boulogne, France.
Date of Entry Therein: 30th August 1915 – France.
Rank: Sergeant: Service Number: 13919
Regiment: Essex Regiment, 11th Battalion.
Medals Awarded: Victory, British War & 1915 Star.
Memorial Reference:
Pier & Face 10D.
Somme,
France.
Relatives Notified & Address: Son of William & Alice Begg, of East Street, Ipswich; husband of May Begg, of Brook Street, Manningtree, Essex.
Father of JACK WILLIAM BEGG. Died at sea during WW2.
CENSUS
1901 30, Bridge Street, Ipswich.
Jack was 6 years old and lived with his parents, sister & cousin.
William Leeder Begg, 34, a Tobacconist – own account, born Ipswich.
Alice Lottie Begg (nee Roe), 32, born Ipswich.
Laura Alice Begg, 7, born Ipswich.
Frederick W.E. Mills, 18, a Sheet Iron Worker, born Fulham, London.
1911 164, Cauldwell Hall Road, Ipswich.
Jack was 16 years old and lived with his mother, sisters, stepfather and stepbrother.
George John Norman, 45, an Engine Fitter – Lawn Mower Works, born Ipswich.
Alice Norman, 42.
Laura Begg, 17, Assistant in a Box Factory.
Lilian Mabel Begg, 9, born Ipswich.
Charles William Norman, 7, born Ipswich.
Jack’s father, William Leeder Begg, died in 1901, Ipswich.
In 1912, Cosford, Jack married Rachel May Barber, born May 1894, East Bergholt, Suffolk – daughter of William Barber and Rachel Flory Barber (nee Pennell).
May and Jack had two children:
Alice May Begg, born December 1913, Ipswich.
Jack William Begg, born December 1915, Ipswich – died 2nd December 1940 on board H.M.S. Forfar.
Soldiers’ Effects to May Begg – widow.
Jack is also remembered on the war memorial at Mistley, Essex.
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