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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

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