JACK FREDERICK NELSON DAMANT

Jack is remembered on the war memorial at the Town Hall, Ipswich.

Born: 10th July 1920, 19, Stirling Street, Ipswich.

Died: 23rd December 1942; age: 20; died of asphyxia due to an obstruction in the larynx, at the Station Sick Quarters, at R.A.F. Mosul.

Occupation: Ipswich Corporation.

Rank: Aircraftman Second Class; Service Number: 1251793.

Regiment: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, 52 Squadron.

The body was originally buried at Mosul Civil Cemetery. On the 23rd August 1944, the body was exhumed, identified and reburied at Mosul New War Cemetery. On the 4th November 1989, the body was again exhumed, identified by a headstone before reburial at Mosul War Cemetery.

Grave Reference:

2.D.5.

Mosul War Cemetery,

Iraq.

Relatives Notified & Address: Son of Walgrave Brampton & Edith Damant, of 26, Princethorpe Road, Ipswich; husband of Annie Mary I. Damant, of Wolverhampton, West Midlands.

Father: Walgrave Brampton Damant, born August 1893, Witnesham, Suffolk.

Mother: Edith Damant (nee Silburn), born May 1892, Ipswich.

Sisters:

Olive Marie Damant, born April 1914, 2, Chenery Street, Ipswich.

Joyce Muriel Damant, born December 1916, 19, Stirling Street, Ipswich.

Pamela Jean Damant, born May 1930, Ipswich.

Brothers:

Raymond Brampton Damant, born June 1920, 19, Stirling Street, Ipswich.

Geoffrey Peter Damant, born February 1925, Ipswich.

In 1941, Bilston, Staffordshire, Jack married Annie Mary I. Johnson.

Annie and Jack had one son.

Raymond Robert F. Damant, born September 1943, Wolverhampton.

Jack is also remembered on the war memorial at Wolverhampton, West Midlands.