See also
Name:
Sex:
Male
Nickname:
Wally
Father:
Mother:
Occupation:
iron cores baker6
Birth:
31 Mar 1918
Census:
19 Jun 1921 (age 3 yrs 3 mns)
28 Gibson Street, Ipswich, Suffolk, England7
son living in four rooms with his widowed father George, his mother Beatrice Overett, and half-brother Henry. Born in Ipswich
Census:
29 Sep 1939 (age 21)
48 Cullingham Road, Ipswich, Suffolk, England6
a married iron cores baker (heavy worker) living with his wife Phyllis. Born on 31st March 1918
Military Service:
frm 12 Dec 1939 to 20 May 1946 (age 21-28)
British Army Royal Artillery (Med) 67th Med 231 battery as a gunner no:9565849 8
Prisoner of War:
21 Jun 1942 (age 24)
Torbruk, Lybia8
and was held in Germany until 1945
Death:
Q1 2010 (age 91-92)
Ancestry Family Trees, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk). Cottam Lambs by DeborahCottam. Cit. Date: 6 May 2019.
England and Wales Marriage Index 1837 - 2005, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). Nottingham 1963 quarter4 volume:3c page:800. Cit. Date: 6 May 2019.
England and Wales Birth Index 1837 - 2021, (on-line at www.gro.gov.uk, www.findmypast.co.uk and www.ancestry.co.uk). Ipswich 1918 quarter:2 volume:4a page:471. Cit. Date: 15 August 2017.
Ibid. Ipswich 1918 quarter:2 volume:4a page:1471. Cit. Date: 15 August 2017.
England and Wales Death Index 1837 - 2021, (on-line at www.gro.gov.uk, www.findmypast.co.uk and www.ancestry.co.uk). Leicester 2010 quarter:1 district:6001H register:1H004 entry:502825195. Cit. Date: 3 October 2023.
UK 1939 Register, (on-line at www.findmypast.co.uk). National Archive reference:RG101 piece:6601E page:5 line:34 letter code:TVBE. Cit. Date: 6 May 2019.
England and Wales Census 1921, (on-line at www.findmypast.co.uk). National Archive series:RG15 piece:9449 registration district:213 sub-district:2 enumeration district:26 schedule:349. Cit. Date: 30 September 2023.
Ancestry UK and Allied Countries, World War II Liberated Prisoner of War Questionnaires, 1945-1946, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk). service no:956584. Cit. Date: 3 October 2023.
FindMyPast Royal Artillery attestations 1883-1942 Transcription, (on-line at www.findmypast.co.uk). page:59 no:956587. Cit. Date: 3 October 2023.
England and Wales Birth Index 1837 - 2021, (on-line at www.gro.gov.uk, www.findmypast.co.uk and www.ancestry.co.uk). Berkhampstead 1942 quarter:1 volume:3a page:2368. Cit. Date: 6 May 2019.
Ibid. Berkhamsted 1942 quarter:1 volume:3a page:2368. Cit. Date: 6 May 2019.
England and Wales Death Index 1837 - 2021, (on-line at www.gro.gov.uk, www.findmypast.co.uk and www.ancestry.co.uk). Nottingham 1993 quarter:4 district:6391G register:G58A entry:180 date:1293. Cit. Date: 6 May 2019.