Jack Page

A Leading Seaman with H.M. Trawler Laertes. Jack died on 25th of July 1942 at the age of 29. 

Jack was born at Aldburgh on 8 July 1914, a son of Son of Henry Joseph and Eva Ellen Page. In 1911 his family lived at Oulton Broad, and by 1921 were living at Village Green, Homersfield, Suffolk. By 1939 they were living at 67 Beccles Road, Lowestoft, and Jack worked as a trawler deck hand. 

Jack married Kathleen Joyce Beamish, at Lowestoft, in 1940. 

Jack was serving on the Laertes, off Sierra Leone, when it was sunk by a torpedo fired by submarine U-201. Nineteen crew, including Jack, were killed.