Jessie Charles Nunn

A Private with the 1/4th Battalion, Jessie died on 3rd of March 1916 at the age of 26.

Jessie was born at Mundham, near Loddon, Norfolk, in 1890, a son of Jessie and Eliza Nunn. In 1891 his family lived at Queen Street, Southwold, and his mother was a lodging house keeper. By 1901 they were living at 34 Beaconsfield Road, Lowestoft. In 1911 they lived at St. Aubyn Cottage, Carlton Road, and Jessie was a compositor at a printers. The 1911 Census shows that there was a visitor at their home: Hettie (Harriet) Boyce, a book-binder.

On 5 June 1915 Jessie married Harriet Louisa Boyce at Christchurch, Lowestoft. Jessie was a solider, whose home was at 32 Carlton Road, and Harriet lived at 14 Reeve Street.

Jessie volunteered and enlisted in the Army, at Ipswich, in October 1914. He joined the Suffolk Regiment, service number 2406. Jessie joined the 4th Battalion and in early 1916 was posted to France to join the 1/4th Battalion. 

In late February 1916 the 1/4th Battalion were in trenches near Philosophe. Records shows that Jessie was accidentally killed by a bayonet wound.   

Jessie is listed on Saint Margaret’s War Memorial as Charles Nunn.