IVAN PERCY SKEET

Photograph courtesy of Jan

Born: 1919, Chigwell, Essex.

Died: 23rd October 1941; age: 22; KiA in the Middle East.

Residence: Stratford St. Mary, Essex.

Employed: at Messrs. Ransomes and Rapier, Ipswich.

Rank: Private; Service Number: 7619552

Regiment: Royal Army Ordnance Corps.

Grave Reference:

2.F.6.

Alexandria (Hadra) War Memorial Cemetery,

Alexandria,

Al Iskandariyah,

Egypt.

Relatives Notified & Address: Son of Eustace Percy & Ethel Ridson Skeet, of Stratford St. Mary, Essex.

Father: Eustace Percy Skeet, born 1890, Alderton, Suffolk – died December 1922, at Pall Mall, Leigh on Sea, Essex. Eustace had fought in the First World War and did not return home a well man.

Mother: Ethel Ridson Skeet (nee Braybrook), born December 1890, Woodbridge, Suffolk.

Ivan played for the tennis and hockey teams associated with the firm of Messrs. Ransomes and Rapier.

Image from the Evening Star – 5th November 1941