Elsie Tugela Easter

A Civilian, Elsie died on 26th of August 1942 aged 42. 

Elsie was born at Lowestoft on 26 February 1900, a daughter of Julian Christopher and Annie Eliza Juler. She was baptised at Saint Margaret’s Church on 9 May 1902 and her family lived at 87 Arnold Street. By 1911 they were living at 33 Tennyson Road and this was still their home in 1921 when Elsie was a shop assistant on the furniture department at Tuttle and Sons Limited, drapers and furnishers, London Road North. 

On 18 February 1928 Elsie married Charles Glencoe Redvers Easter at Saint Margaret’s Church. Elsie was living at 128 Clapham Road, and Charles was a clerk living at 27 Church Road. By 1939 their home was at 100 Avondale Road, Ipswich. Charles served during the war as a Corporal with the Royal Corps of Signals.

Elsie died, at 65 Avondale Road, Ipswich, during an air raid.  

Elsie’s brother-in-law, Raymond Easter, served in the Suffolk Regiment and died in 1916.