WALTER CLARENCE JAY

Born: 30th July 1918, Ipswich.

Died: 26th December 1945; age 27; died of Dehydration and Toxaemia, Facial Fistula and Ileal Tuberculosis, at the Borough General Hospital, Ipswich.

Walter’s father was the informant of the death – Mr. George Herbert Jay, of 12, Kingston Road, Ipswich.

Residence: 12, Kingston Road, Ipswich.

Occupation: Tailor’s Cutter.

Rank: Private; Service Number: 5830073.

Regiment: The Green Howards (Yorkshire Regiment).

Grave Reference:

U.E.65.

Ipswich New Cemetery,

Ipswich.

Relatives Notified & Address: Son of George Herbert & Lucy Alice Jay, of 12, Kingston Road, Ipswich; husband of Beryl Mary Jay, of Ipswich.

Father: George Herbert Jay, born February 1890, Whitton, Suffolk. An Engineer’s Store Attendant.

Mother: Lucy Alice Jay (nee Finbow), born April 1887, Cotton, Suffolk.

CENSUS

1921   12, Kingston Road, Ipswich.

Walter was 2 years and 11 months old and lived with his parents and siblings.

George Jay, 31 years & 5 months old, a General Stores Labourer for Reavell & Co. Ltd. – Air Compressing Machinery Manufacturers, at Ranelagh Works, Ipswich.

Lucy Jay, 33 years & 10 months old, Home Duties.

Hilda Marjorie Jay, 9 years & 3 months old, at School, born Ipswich.

Herbert Martin Jay, 7 years & 6 months old, at School, born Ipswich.

Alice Elizabeth Jay, 6 years & 6 months old, at School, born Ipswich.

Charles Edward Jay, 4 years & 11 months old, at School, born Ipswich.

Elsie Marjorie Jay, 13 months old, born Ipswich.

In 1945, in North Cotswold, Gloucestershire, Walter married Beryl Mary Franklin, a grocer’s assistant at her father’s shop, born October 1920, in Worcester, Worcestershire – daughter of William George Franklin, a grocer – shopkeeper – own account, and Eleanor Sarah Franklin (nee Maddison), of Sunny Bank, Station Road, North Cotswold, Gloucestershire.

Beryl and Walter had one daughter:

Hilary Jay, born 1946, North Cotswold, Gloucestershire.

General Nursing Council for England & Wales.

Beryl, of 12, Kingston Road, Ipswich, was registered 24th November 1944, at London – qualification taken Evesham Hospital, affiliated to General Eye Hospital, Cheltenham – 1940 – 1944 by examination.

Probate to Beryl Mary Jay – widow.