PHILIP HENRY STOREY

IPSWICH WAR MEMORIAL | Posted on 5th June 2016 |

From May through to September 2026, Andrew will be fulfilling his dream to hike the iconic Land’s End to John O’Groats! You are all warmly invited to follow Andrew’s epic journey on his Facebook page, “Andrew Beal LEJOG” https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61577588795730

As Andrew hikes the 1,300+ miles, he will raise funds for the Ipswich War Memorial Project to help finance our future exhibitions and research of the brave Ipswich men and women who lost their lives in conflict. If you would like to make a small donation, please click on the link: https://gofund.me/5d4a50570

Thank you for your love and support. Andrew & Helen – I.W.M.P.

Photographs courtesy of Sally Parfitt.

Born: 1885, Ipswich.

Died: 29th October 1918, age 33; KiA.

Residence: 41, Cauldwell Hall Road, St. John’s, Ipswich.

Occupation: Warehouseman – Cranfield’s Flour Mill

Enlistment Place: Ipswich.

Rank: Private; Service Number: G/30081

Regiment: Queen’s (Royal West Surrey) Regiment, 2nd Battalion.

Grave Reference:

4.C.4.

Tezze British Cemetery,

Italy.

Relatives Notified and Address: Son of Henry Joseph and Emma Storey, of Ipswich; husband of Gertrude Matilda Storey, of 41, Cauldwell Hall Road, St. Johns, Ipswich.

CENSUS

1891 4, Tunnel Cottages, Belstead Road, Ipswich.

Philip was 6 years old and living with his parents & sister.

Henry Joseph Storey, 32, a Gardener – Domestic, born Ipswich.

Emma Storey (nee Hazelton), 32, born Belstead, Suffolk.

Rose Emma Storey, 4, born Ipswich.

1901 4, Tunnel Cottages, Belstead Road, Ipswich.

Philip was 16 years old, a Gardener – Domestic. He was living with his parents & siblings.

Henry, 42, a Gardener – Domestic

Emma, 42. Phillip had 4 children,

Rose, 14.

Frank Robert Storey, 8, Ipswich.

1911 130, Cavendish Street, Ipswich.

Philip was 26 years old, a Warehouseman – Cranfield’s Flour Mill. He was married and Head of the Household.

Gertrude, 24.

Philip, 3.

Albert, 2.

On Christmas Day, 1906, at St. John the Baptist Church, Ipswich, 22 year old Philip, a warehouseman, of 12, Coronation Road, Ipswich, married 19 year old Gertrude Matilda Warne, born December 1886, Ipswich, of 101, Fore Street, Ipswich – daughter of John Thomas Warne, a foreman warehouseman at Cranfield’s Flour Mill and Elizabeth Caroline Maria Warne (nee Kemball), of Bank Side, 1, Star Lane, Ipswich.

Gertrude and Philip had four children:

Philip Edward John Storey, born April 1907, Ipswich.

Albert Henry Joseph Storey, born July 1908, Ipswich.

Molly Alice May Storey, born June 1915, Ipswich.

Marjorie Gertrude Kate Storey, born October 1916, Ipswich.

Soldiers’ Effects to Gertrude M. Story – widow.

Philip is also remembered on the war memorial at DanceEast, Jerwood Dancehouse, Ipswich, formerly Cranfield’s Flour Mill, and on the war memorial at St. John the Baptist Church, Ipswich.