Name
James Edward
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
09/11/1918
38
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
375385
Essex Regiment
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Searched but not found
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LUTON CHURCH BURIAL GROUND
Z.N.52
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
No Report
UK & Other Memorials
Harpenden Town Memorial
Pre War
James Edward was born in 1880 in Monchelsea, Maidstone to James Bullet Japtheth Genn, a labourer, and Eliza (nee Potter).
In the 1891 Census the family were living at Park lane Linton, Monchelsea, Maidstone. On the 1901 Census they had moved to Cock Street. James was employed as a bricklayer’s labourer and had 6 brothers and 3 sisters.
He married May Edith Gibbons on 2 Aug 1909 at Linton, Maidstone and on the 1911 Census were living with the Gibbons at Lacey House, Linton. James was working as a groom/gardener. He was the father of 2 daughters: Phyllis May Queenie (1913) and Dorothea Caroline Grace (1916). The family were living in Luton and may have moved to Harpenden around 1916. He widow later lived at 35, Ball St, The Well's Rd, Nottingham.
Wartime Service
James enlisted as Private 375385 in the Essex Regiment and was later transferred to the Labour Corps and re-numbered as 456989.
He died in Luton V.A.D. Hospital on 9 Nov 1918.
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper
Jonty Wild, Mary Skinner, Harpenden & District Local History Society (www.harpenden-history.org.uk)
