ALBERT JAMES BILES
Photographs and extra information courtesy of Maureen.
Laid to rest at Ipswich New Cemetery.
JIM
Born: 6th August 1916, Ipswich.
Died: 6th March 1946; age 29; died of Uraemia and right kidney failure following left nephrectomy and carbuncle of left kidney, at the Ipswich Borough General Hospital, Ipswich.
Post Mortum.
The informant of the death Mr. Wilfred Albert Francis Biles – brother, of 5, Alston Road, Ipswich.
Residence: 5, Alston Road, Ipswich.
Occupation: Cycle and Wireless Repairer.
Based at R.A.F Cardington, Bedfordshire.
Rank: Corporal; Service Number: 1151571.
Regiment: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, 102 Personnel Dispersal Centre – Technical Training Command.
Albert was laid to rest with his father.
Grave Reference:
X.G.5.363.
Ipswich.
Relatives Notified & Address: Youngest son of Walter Albert Francis & Agnes Mary Biles, of Ipswich.
Father: Walter Albert Francis Biles, born 1881, Battersea, Surrey – died in March 1934, at the East Suffolk and Ipswich Hospital, Ipswich, of 5, Alston Road, Ipswich. Late of the 5th Royal Irish Lancers.
Mother: Agnes Mary Biles (nee Brook), born October 1886, Ipswich.
CENSUS
1921 412, Spring Road, Ipswich.
Albert was 4 years and 10 months old and lived with his parents and siblings.
Walter Biles, 40 years & 6 months old, a Builder’s Labourer for Mr. Frederick Johnson – Builder – contracted to build new homes at Weymouth Road, Ipswich.
Agnes Biles, Home Duties.
Wilfred Albert Francis, 7 years & 11 months, at School, born Wollwich, Kent.
Enda May Biles, 14 months old, born Ipswich.
ENGLAND & WALES REGISTER 1939
Albert was a Wood Machinist and a full-time member of the Auxiliary Fire Service. He lived with his widowed mother and sisters at their family home, 5 Alston Road, Ipswich.
Agnes, unpaid Domestic Duties.
Edna, a Tobacco Worker.
Lily Louise Biles, a Grocery Assistant, held a First Aid Post with the Ambulance Auxiliary Service, born December 1921, Ipswich.
Family Note: Albert’s brother, Wilfred Albert Francis Biles, was Head Porter at The Great White Horse Hotel, Ipswich until his retirement.
One Comment
Albert James (Jim) Biles was unmarried. He was in the Technical Training Command, his Unit was the 102 Personnel Dispersal Centre at the Military Base at Cardington Bedfordshire.
His father’s name was Walter (not William) Albert Francis Biles who married, in 1906, Agnes Mary (nee Brook) daughter of Benjamin Isaac Brook of Henley, Suffolk. Agnes died in 1960.
Albert James’s brother, Wilfred Albert Francis born 1913 at Woolwich, Kent was Head Porter at The Great White Horse Hotel until his retirement.