Name
Jesse Bunker
19 June 1898
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
19/05/1918
19
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
G/14271
Royal Sussex Regiment
7th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
MAILLY WOOD CEMETERY, MAILLY-MAILLET
II. M. 2.
France
Headstone Inscription
None
UK & Other Memorials
Bourne End Village Memorial, St John's Church Roll of Honour (book), Bourne End, Not on the Boxmoor memorials, Not on the Hemel Hempstead memorials, We are not aware of any memorial in Winkwell
Pre War
Jesse Bunker was born on 19 June 1898 in Winkwell, Hemel Hempstead, Herts, the son of William and Frances Bunker, and baptised with his sister Lily and brother Albert in Bovingdon. Herts on 28 August 1898.
On the 1901 Census, the family were living at Boxmoor, Northchurch, Hemel Hempstead, where his father was working as a Road Foreman. They had moved to Bourne End Lane, Hemel Hempstead by 1911 and Jesse was a 12 year old schoolboy.
His mother died in 1922.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Watford and served with the 7th Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment.
He was killed in action on the Somme on 19 May 1918, aged 19, during the German Spring Offensive and is buried at Mailly Wood Cemetery, France.
Additional Information
His mother received a war gratuity of £4 and pay owing of £12 1s 9d. She also received a pension of 7 shillings a week from 3.12.1918.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Jonty Wild, www.dacorumheritage.org.uk
