STANLEY HENRY EDWARD BUNKELL

Remembered by Ransomes, Sims & Jefferies with entrance gates, dedicated in May 1958, at Ransomes Sports’ Centre, Sidegate Avenue, Ipswich

Image courtesy of Paul.

Born: 1925, Ipswich.

Died: 11th May 1945; age 20; died of Adrenal Failure and Cerebrospinal Fever, at Warley Woods Emergency Hospital, Brentwood, Essex.

Mrs. Joan Margaret Bunkell – widow, was present at the death.

Residence: 88, Ranelagh Road, Felixstowe, Suffolk.

Employed: an Electric Welder for Ransomes, Sims & Jefferies, Ipswich.

Stanley was based at Warley Barracks, Brentwood, Essex.

Rank: Private; Service Number: 14942161.

Regiment: General Service Corps.

Grave Reference:

B.K.24.

Felixstowe New Cemetery,

Suffolk.

Relatives Notified & Address: Son of Stanley Henry & Jessie May Bunkell; husband of Joan Margaret Bunkell, of Sevenoaks, Kent.

Father: Stanley Henry Bunkell, born May 1897, Norwich, Norfolk.

Mother: Jessie May Bunkell (nee Raymer), born April 1896, Ipswich.

In 1945, Deben, Suffolk, Stanley married Joan Margaret Carte, born May 1920, Swindon, Wiltshire – daughter of Charles Carte, an actor, and Dorothy Ida Alice Kate Carte (nee Douglass), an actress.

Stanley is also remembered on the war memorial at the Sea Front, Felixstowe, Suffolk.