See also

Family of Charles Henry Dersley and Eva Beatrice Gray

  • Husband:

  • Charles Henry Dersley (1919-1942)

  • Wife:

  • Eva Beatrice Gray (1918-2008)

  • Marriage:

  • Q4 1939

  • Ipswich "Registration District", Suffolk, England1

Husband: Charles Henry Dersley

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1942 CWGC Charles Harry Dersley

  • Name:

  • Charles Henry Dersley2

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Father:

  • James Frederick Dersley (1879-1952)

  • Mother:

  • Florence Margaret Aldous (1887-1938)

  • Occupation:

  •  

  • pipe fitter3

  • Birth:

  • 21 Dec 1919

  • Ipswich "Registration District", Suffolk, England2 3

  • Census:

  • 29 Sep 1939 (age 19)

  • Church Lane, Hardwick, Lincolnshire, England3

  •  

  • an unmarried pipe fitter in constructional engineering (heavy worker) living with George Wright and family. Born on 21st December 1919

  • Death:

  • 20 Jan 1942 (age 22)

  • 2 miles south of, Senggarang, Johor, Malaya4 5

  •  

  • Cause: in action

    and his body was not recovered

  • War Memorial:

  •  

  • Singapore Memorial, Woodlands Road, Singapore4

  •  

  • private 5831108 2nd Battalion Cambridgeshire Regiment died 28th January 1942 aged 22 as Charles Harry Dersley

Wife: Eva Beatrice Gray

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Eva Beatrice Gray, 1977, age 58

  • Name:

  • Eva Beatrice Gray1

  • Sex:

  • Female

  • Father:

  • -

  • Mother:

  • -

  • Occupation:

  •  

  • domestic servant6

  • Birth:

  • 26 Jun 1918

  • Ipswich, Suffolk, England7 6

  • Census:

  • 29 Sep 1939 (age 21)

  • 56 Hogarth Road, Ipswich, Suffolk, England6

  •  

  • an unmarried domestic servant living with Albert and Florence Sewell and family. Born on 26th June 1918 and married a Dersley then a Goodrich at later dates

  • Death:

  • 2008 (age 89-90)

  • Mandurah, Western Australia, Australia7

Note on Wife: Eva Beatrice Gray

Following Charles's death Eva married Maurice Goodridge in Ipswich in 1944. Cannot locate a birth record for Eva, was she born Eva Beatrice Scrivener in Woolwich?8

Sources

1.

England and Wales Marriage Index 1837 - 2005, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). Ipswich 1939 quarter:4 volume:4a page:5025. Cit. Date: 13 February 2022.

2.

England and Wales Birth Index 1837 - 2021, (on-line at www.gro.gov.uk, www.findmypast.co.uk and www.ancestry.co.uk). Ipswich 1920 quarter:1 volume:4a page:2466. Cit. Date: 12 February 2022.

3.

UK 1939 Register, (on-line at www.findmypast.co.uk). National Archive reference:RG101 piece:6460A page:5 line:4 letter code:TNDJ. Cit. Date: 13 February 2022.

4.

Commonwealth War Grave Commission, (on-line at www.cwgc.org). Singapore Memorial column:58. Cit. Date: 13 February 2022.

5.

FindMyPast Prisoners of War 1715-1945 Transcription, (on-line at www.findmypast.co.uk). National Archive reference:WO 361/1203 no:5831108. Cit. Date: 13 February 2022.

6.

UK 1939 Register, (on-line at www.findmypast.co.uk). National Archive reference:RG101 piece:6608E page:23 line:32 letter code:TVNZ. Cit. Date: 13 February 2022.

7.

Ancestry Family Trees, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk). Teresas Family Tree by Teresa Shirra. Cit. Date: 13 February 2022.

8.

England and Wales Marriage Index 1837 - 2005, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). Ipswich 1944 quarter:1 volume:4a page:2186. Cit. Date: 13 February 2022.