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Memorials & Monuments
on the Isle of Wight
- Biography -
- Walter Henry Jessop -

Unknown person
Name : Walter Henry Jessop.

Son of Samuel Jessop and Annie Jessop (née Mew), of Church Road, Niton.

Born 1890, Godshill.

  Census Information :

1891 : Sam and Annie Jessop, with their children including Walter aged 7 mths, are at 2 Jenamine Cottages, Godshill. Sam Jessop is a Rural Letter Carrier (Army Pensioner).

1901 : Sam and Annie Jessop, with their children including Walter aged 10, are at The Village, Godshill. Sam Jessop is a Rural Postman.

1911 : Sam and Annie Jessop, with their children including Walter aged 20, are at Church Road, Niton. Sam Jessop is an Army Pensioner, Walter Jessop is a Toolman (domestic).

  Service details :

Driver 584 Walter Henry Jessop, 1st/4th Hants Bty., Royal Field Artillery.

  Casualty Details :

Died : 17 April 1916 aged 25

Buried at : Maala Cemetery, Yemen.

CWGC record ...
  Commemorated on these Memorials :

Carisbrooke Castle County War Memorial Panel 07
Niton Parish War Memorial
Niton Parish Hall Roll of Honour
Niton St John's Church Parish War Memorial


  Documents :

ISLE OF WIGHT COUNTY PRESS

Saturday, April 29, 1916 Page 1

Killed in Action, &c.
JESSOP. - April 17, at Aden, of malarial fever, Driver W.H. Jessop, 4th Hants (Howitzer) Battery, R.F.A., 2nd Wessex Brigade, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. Jessop, of Church-street, Niton, aged 25.

Page 3

THE ISLAND AND THE WAR

NITON
Driver W.H. Jessop, 4th Hants (Howitzer) Battery, R.F.A., youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. Jessop, of Church-street, Niton, died of malarial fever at Aden, on April 17th, at the age of 25.


  Acknowledgments :

Janet Griffin for newspaper research
  Page status :
Page last updated : 6 July 2013 - added to website


 
 

 
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