KATHLEEN BATTERSHILL FINBOW

Born: 31st October 1919, Ipswich.

Died: 5th June 1940; age 21; of cardiac failure, at Brook House Nursing Home, Ipswich.

Residence: 81, Lacey Street, Ipswich.

Occupation: part time Shop Assistant.

Rank: Wren; Service Number: 2656.

Regiment: Women’s Royal Naval Service, H.M.S.’Ganges.’

Grave Reference:

X.H.3.211.

Ipswich New Cemetery,

Ipswich.

Relatives Notified & Address: Daughter of Fred & Bessie Katharine Finbow, of Ipswich.

Father: Fred Finbow, born 1883, Trimley St. Martin, Suffolk. A Master of sailing barge ‘Audrey.’

Mother: Bessie Katharine Finbow (nee Battershill), born May 1897, Newton Abbot, Devon.

ENGLAND & WALES REGISTER 1939

Kathleen was a part time Shop Assistant, and had enrolled in the Nursing Auxiliary Service. She was living with her mother & sisters at their family home – 81, Lacey Street, Ipswich.

Bessie, unpaid Domestic Duties.

Audrey J. Finbow, born 1922, Ipswich.

Joan A. Finbow, born 1923, Ipswich.

H.M.S.’Ganges.’