JOHN EDWIN NUNN
Born: 12th October 1886, Ipswich.
Baptised on the 7th December 1899, at St. Michael’s Church, Ipswich, with his sisters, Elizabeth Maud Nunn, born 24th January 1890, Caroline Ethel Nunn, born 15th November 1892, Beatrice May Nunn, born 7th February 1895, and Elsie Ida Nunn, born 15th April 1899 – family home at 19, Old Foundry Road, Ipswich.
Died: 11th October 1917; age 29; died of wounds at No. 15th Corps Rest Station.
Residence: 15, Old Foundry Road, Ipswich.
Occupation: Maltster.
Enlistment Location: Ipswich.
Date of Entry Therein: 9th July 1915 – France.
Rank: Gunner; Service Number: 14281.
Regiment: Royal Field Artillery, ‘A’ Battery, 72nd Brigade.
Medals Awarded: Victory, British War & 1915 Star.
Grave Reference:
I.F.18.
France.
Relatives Notified & Address: Only surviving son of Herbert Nunn (and the late Hannah Nunn), of 165, Spring Road, Ipswich; husband of Alice R. Nicholls (formerly Nunn), of 14, Church Street, Woolwich, London.
CENSUS
1891 50, Fore Street, Ipswich.
John was 4 years old and living with his parents & siblings.
Herbert Nunn, 38, a Tobacco Packer, born Ipswich.
Hannah Nunn (nee Robinson), 32, born Brantham, Suffolk.
Frederick Charles Nunn, 8, born Ipswich.
Ellen Mary Nunn, 6, born Ipswich.
Elizabeth Maud Nunn, 1, born Ipswich.
1901 19, Foundry Road, Ipswich.
John was 14 years old, a Printer’s Machine Boy. He was living with his parents & siblings.
Herbert, 42, a Tobacco Manufacturer Packer.
Hannah, 42.
Frederick, 18, a Plumber’s Assistant.
Ellen, 16, a General Domestic Servant.
Elizabeth, 12.
Caroline Ethel Nunn, 8, born Ipswich.
Beatrice May Nunn, 6, born Ipswich.
Elsie Ida Nunn, 1, born Ipswich.
1911 8, Old Foundry Lane, Ipswich.
John was 24 years old, a Maltster. He was living with his parents & sisters.
Herbert, 52, a Foreman – Tobacco Manufacturer Warehouse.
Hannah, 50.
Elizabeth, 21, a Domestic Servant.
Caroline, 19.
Beatrice, 16, a Tailoress – Clothing Manufacturer.
On Christmas Day, 1912, at St. John the Baptist Church, Ipswich, 26 year old John, a maltster, married 30 year old Alice Rebecca Flory, born 1881, Ipswich, a box maker – daughter of Cornelius Flory, an Ipswich Corporation labourer & Hannah Flory (nee Waldron), of 15, Old Foundry Road, Ipswich.
Alice and John had three children:
Alice Elizabeth Hannah Nunn, born 1913, Ipswich – died on the 7th April 1914, at 66, Old Foundry Road, Ipswich, aged 10 months and buried in Section FF. 1. 48., Ipswich Old Cemetery.
John Herbert Cornelius Nunn, born July 1914, Ipswich.
Edwin Frederick Walter Nunn, born December 1916, Ipswich – died on the 7th December 1918, Ipswich and buried on the 12th December with his sister Alice Nunn in Section FF. 1. 48., Ipswich Old Cemetery.
Soldiers’ Effects to Alice Rebecca Nicholls – widow.
2 Comments
I have been trying to find out what happened to John Nunn`s eldest brother Frederick Charles Nunn,born in Ipswich in 1883, the son of Herbert and Hannah Nunn. He was married to Kathleen Knights of Wymondham.
On various Ancestry trees he is marked as being killed on 30/09/1915 and commemorated at the Loos Memorial at Dud Corner cemetery, Pas -de- Calais, France.
However on further research and checking on this site it would appear that he is not the same Frederick Nunn.
These men were my Great Uncles and the older brothers of my paternal grandmother, she never spoke of them or the war and there is no-one left to ask.
If anyone has any information I would be very grateful,
many thanks Jayne Moorhouse
My great great granddad can’t believe he died in so young