HENRY CHARLES WATLING
Image dated April 1940
Laid to rest at the Field of Honour.
“Sonny”
Image dated 22nd November 1938
Born: 15th March 1919, at 8, Unity Street, Ipswich.
Died: 16th April 1941; age: 22; died whilst in training (the family believe the cause of death to be pneumonia), at Larbert, Stirlingshire, Scotland.
Residence: 8, Unity Street, Ipswich.
Occupation: Furniture Packer.
Rank: Private; Service Number: 5830614.
Regiment: Suffolk Regiment, 4th Battalion – Infantry.
Grave Reference:
C.31.41.
Ipswich.
Father: William Charles Watling, born May 1892, Ipswich. A Labourer.
Mother: Gertrude Emma Watling (nee Garrard (1st marriage Jacobs)), born January 1881, Ipswich.
Brother to GEORGE ALFRED WATLING.
CENSUS
1921 8, Unity Street, Ipswich.
Henry was 2 years and 3 months old and lived with his parents, sister, stepsiblings, and maternal widowed relation.
William Watling, 29 years, a Foundry Labourer for Ransomes & Rapier Ltd., Waterside Works, Stoke, Ipswich.
Gertrude Watling, 40 years & 5 months old, Home Duties.
Florence Ellen Jacobs, 17 years & 7 months old, a Cigarette Packer for Messrs. W.A. & A.C. Churchman – Tobacco Manufacturers, of Princes Street, Ipswich, born Ipswich.
Edith Kate Valentine Jacobs, 15 years & 4 months old, a Corset Maker for Pretty’s Corset Factory, of Tower Ramparts, Ipswich, born Ipswich.
William Albert Edward Jacobs, 12 years & 9 months old, at School, born Ipswich.
Arthur Thomas Jacobs, 11 years & 5 months old, at School, born Ipswich.
Gertrude Evelyn Jacobs, 9 years & 11 months old, at School, born Ipswich.
Nellie Irene Watling, 5 years & 11 months old, at School, born Ipswich.
Henry Howell, 68, an Engine Driver for Ransomes & Rapier Ltd., Waterside Works, Stoke, Ipswich, born Ipswich.
ENGLAND & WALES REGISTER 1939
Henry was a Furniture Packer. He lived with his parents and brothers at the family home – 8, Unity Street, Ipswich.
William, a General Road Work Labourer.
Gertrude, unpaid Domestic Duties.
George Alfred Watling, a Grocer’s Assistant – Co-operative Society, born October 1921, Ipswich.
Eric A. Watling, born 1923, Ipswich.
Images and information courtesy of Brian & Dorothy Jacobs (Brian is a nephew to Henry).
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