RIDER ARTHUR RUMBELLOW
Recorded as “RIDER” on war records.
Ridger is remembered on the war memorial at the Town Hall.
Born: 29th June 1917, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk.
Died: 4th August 1943; age: 26; North Africa
Residence: 9 Kelly Rd, Ipswich.
Occupation: Bus Conductor – Ipswich Buses – Ipswich Corporation.
Rank: Craftsman; Service Number: 165253.
Regiment: Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers.
Memorial Reference:
Panel 20, Column 1.
Woking,
Surrey.
Father: Arthur John Rumbellow, born August 1889, Ipswich. An engine driver.
Mother: Alice Rumbellow (nee Leggett), born December 1893, Ipswich.
Sister: Doris Irene Rumbellow, born 1921, Ipswich.
CENSUS
1921 7, Ranelagh Road, Ipswich.
Rider was 3 years and 10 months old and lived with his parents and siblings.
Arthur Rumbellow, 31 years & 9 months old, an Engine Driver for the Great Eastern Railway.
Alice Rumbellow, 28 years & 6 months old, Home Duties.
Alice Agnes Maud Rumbellow, 6 years & 4 months old, at School, born Bury St. Edmunds.
William Leslie Rumbellow, 2 years & 1 month old, born Bury St. Edmunds.
In 1938, Ipswich, Rider married Olive Edna Pooley, born May 1920, Ipswich – daughter of William Pooley, a greengrocer, and Alice Elizabeth Jane Pooley (nee Taylor), of 23, Dombey Road, Ipswich.
Olive and Rider had three sons.
ENGLAND and WALES REGISTER 1939
Rider was an Electric Trolley Bus Driver. He was married and lived with his family at their family home – 9, Kelly Road, Ipswich.
Olive Rumbellow, unpaid Domestic Duties.
1 son.
Rider was in the REME, which took part in the North Africa campaign and worked on tanks and transport in the area.
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