ROBERT GEORGE JENNINGS
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Field of Honour
Born: 16th April 1890, Hackney, London.
On the 14th October 1892, at St. John at Hackney Church, Hackney, with his sister Florence Maude Jennings, born 9th October 1888 – family home at 6, Brett Road, Hackney.
Died: 24th January 1920; age 29; died of Cerebellar Abscess and Mastoid Abscess at the Ipswich Borough Isolation Hospital.
Robert’s sister, Mrs. Ethel Rose Wyatt (nee Jennings), of Valley View, Henniker Road, Ipswich, was the informant of the death.
Residence: 5, Tower Ramparts, Ipswich.
Occupation: Motor Lorry Driver for the Great Eastern Railway Company.
Joined the Army in 1915; went out to France in 1916, where he was in hospital for some time, suffering from concussion.
Demobilised in 1919.
Rank: Rifleman; Service Number: 417243.
Regiment: London Regiment (The Rangers), 12th Battalion – transferred to 883rd Area Employment Company, Labour Corps.
Military funeral held on the 28th January.
Grave Reference:
BA.2.70.
Ipswich.
CENSUS
1891 34, Aspland Grove, Hackney, London.
Robert was 11 months old and living with his parents & sister.
Robert Jennings, 26, a Metropolitan Police Constable, born Sproughton, Suffolk.
Ellen Elizabeth Jennings (nee Giles), 25, born Whitton, Suffolk.
Florence Maude Jennings, 2, born Hackney, London.
1901 89, Abbeyfield Road, Rotherhithe, Surrey.
Robert was 10 years old and living with his parents & sisters.
Robert, 34, Police Sergeant.
Ellen 35.
Florence, 12.
Ethel Rose Jennings, 2, born Rotherhithe, Surrey.
1911 8, Aspinden Road, Rotherhithe, Surrey.
Robert was 20 years old, a Provision Merchant’s Clerk – Warehouse. He was living with his parents & siblings.
Robert, 46, a Metropolitan Police Pensioner & Wharf Gatekeeper.
Ellen, 45.
Florence, 22.
Ethel, 12.
Herbert Cyril Jennings, 4, born Rotherhithe, Surrey.
On the 1st September 1912, at St. James’s Church, Bermondsey, Surrey, 22 year old James, a clerk, married 20 year old Minnie Emma Elizabeth Perrin, born March 1892, Bermondsey – daughter of Thomas Horace Perrin, a house painter, and Mary Ann Perrin (nee Manton), of 5, Silwood Street, Bermondsey.
Minnie and Robert had four children:
Grace Minnie Jennings, born January 1913 and baptised on the 2nd March 1913, at Clare College Mission, Bermondsey – family home at 2, Old Road, Bermondsey. Robert was a clerk.
Robert John Jennings, born July 1915, Ipswich and baptised on the 5th September 1915, at St. Mary and St. Botolph Church, Whitton, Suffolk – family home in Ipswich. Robert was a Private with the London Regiment, 12th Battalion.
George Leonard Jennings, born April 1918, Ipswich and baptised on the 4th August 1918, at St. Matthew’s Church, Ipswich – family home at 5, Tower Ramparts, Ipswich. Robert was a Private for the London Regiment, 12th Battalion.
Phyllis May Jennings, born January 1920, Ipswich and baptised on the 7th March 1920 at St. Matthew’s Church, Ipswich – family home at 5, Tower Ramparts, Ipswich.
Robert is also remembered on the war memorial at Felixstowe, Suffolk.
Suffolk Chronicle and Mercury – 6th February 1920 – Ex-SOLDIER’S FUNERAL AT IPSWICH – The interment took place in the Field of Honour at Ipswich Old Cemetery last week for Mr. Robert George Jennings. The deceased joined the Army in 1915 and proceeded to France in 1916, where he was in hospital for some time suffering from concussion. He was demobilised in January 1919, and recently entered the service of the Great Eastern Railway as a motor lorry driver. He passed away after a short illness at the Borough Isolation Hospital on Saturday.
Full military honours were accorded, the coffin being borne on a gun carriage, preceded by a firing party from the R.F.A., Ipswich. The service at the Cemetery was performed by the Rev. J. McMahon, after which three volleys were fired.
There were several floral tributes, including one from his workmates, and others from the Ipswich Women’s Guild, and the Ipswich Branch of the N.A.D.S. and S., whose representatives were also present. The deceased leaves a widow and four children. Messrs. Hastings and Son, of Berners Street, carried out the funeral arrangements.
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