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Name: JONES, John Benjamin (Serjeant)
Birth Date: 1896
Death Date: 4 June 1940 Nairobi
Last Date: 1940
Profession: Sergeant in E AF Army Service Corps, attached from Kenya Regiment
Area: Port Tudor Road, Mombasa
Married: Edith Anne b. 1901, of Feckenham, Worcestershire
Children: Ederlin Barbara (1936 Surrey); Hilary M. (1938)
Book Reference: CWGC
General Information:
CWGC - Nairobi (Forest Road) Cemetery - Serjeant John Benjamin Jones, FB/1009, Kenya Regiment [incorrect - in reality Kenya Defence Force] attd. East African Army Service Corps. 4th June 1940. Age 44. Husband of Edith Anne Jones, of Feckenham, Worcestershire. Block 16. Grave 66. His headstone inscription: 'In loving memory Bee, Ederlin and Hilary'
Nat. Probate Calendar for Port Tudor Rd. Mombasa
Register of Deaths, EA Forces, Europeans Died in the European Hospital, Nairobi, of complications (haemorrhage) following surgery for removal of prostate
Ancestry Passenger list Mombasa-London 13 Apr 1939 for wife and children - address 22 Moresby Ave, Surbiton, Surrey
Dau Ederlin became a nurse (Nursing Reg.) in 1959