JOHN LESLIE FENNER

John is remembered on the war memorial at Holy Trinity Church, Ipswich.

JACK

Born: 21st May 1917, Ipswich.

Died: 10th January 1943; age 25; died of Pneumonia at Ahwaz.

Residence: 32, Levington Road, Ipswich.

Rank: Sapper; Service Number: 2182505.

Regiment: Royal Engineers, 19 Field Survey Coy.

The body was originally buried at Ahwaz Military Cemetery. On the 28th September 1944, the body was exhumed, identified and reburied at Basra War Cemetery.

Grave Reference:

8.B.II.

Basra War Cemetery,

Al Basrah,

Iraq.

Relatives Notified & Address: Son of Frederick Charles Gerard & Charlotte Fenner, of Levington Road, Ipswich; husband of Evelyn Eva Fenner, of Ipswich.

Father: Frederick Charles Gerard Fenner, born September 1870, Leiston, Suffolk. A tool fitter & jig maker.

Mother: Charlotte Fenner (nee Simpson), born November 1875, Ipswich.

CENSUS

1921   32, Levington Road, Ipswich.

John was 4 years old and lived with his parents and siblings.

Frederick Fenner, 50 years & 9 months old, a Tool Fitter in the Plough Department for Ransomes, Sims & Jefferies Ltd., Orwell Works, Ipswich.

Charlotte Fenner, 44 years & 7 months old, Home Duties.

Doris Kathleen Sophie Fenner, 21 years & 6 months old, an Engineer’s Tracer for E.R. & F. Turner, of  Ironworks, St. Peter’s, Ipswich, born Ipswich.

Frederick George Fenner, 19 years & 5 months old, an Apprentice to a Lithographic Artist at W.S. Cowell Ltd., of Butter Market, Ipswich, born Ipswich.

Florence Norah Kate Fenner, 16 years old, at School – a Scholarship Pupil at the Ipswich Municipal Secondary School, Bolton Lane, Ipswich, born Ipswich.

Margaret Ethel Fenner, 8 years & 10 months old, at School – Nacton Road Council School, Ipswich, born Ipswich.

In 1940, at Ipswich, John married Evelyn Eva Revett, a machinist of ladies’ coats, born December 1915, Ipswich – daughter of Arthur Charles Revett, a commercial traveller – own account (died 1935, Ipswich), and Ada Eliza Revett (nee Payne), of 433, Landseer Road, Ipswich.