Eric Stanley GINNS [7921]

  General Notes:

ERIC STANLEY GINNS- of 36 College Street Higham Ferrers, Northamptonshire, died 13 Aug 1940 on War Service. Administration Peterborough 1 November 1940 to Margaret Edith Ginns, Widow: effects £118
From Find a Grave
Casualty of WWII, Corporal Ginns served with the Royal Air Force~Service No:540014. He was 24.

Deaths Sep 1940 Ginns Eric S 24 Cambridge 3b 1049

Eric Stanley Ginns was born in Northamptonshire circa July-Sept 1916, registered in Kettering, Northamptonshire.

Eric enlisted as a civilian into the Royal Air Force. They joined as an Aircrafthand after October 1925. Appointed as a Class F Reservist.

Corporal Eric Stanley Ginns, of 36 College Street, Higham Ferrers, died at the age of 24.
On Sunday 11th August, Eric was reported to be riding his motorcycle between Royston and Cambridge, with his wife riding pillion, when they collided with a lorry. Eric later died in Cambridge Hospital, though his wife was discharged after receiving cuts and bruises.

Eric had only recently married Miss Margaret Edith Blackwell, of Higham Ferrers, four months before the incident.
At the time of the crash Eric was returning from leave spent at Rushden and Higham. His father, Mr. William Ginns, was a blacksmith in Rushden.

An small article in the Bedfordshire Times and Independent, dated 16 August 1940, reported that he played football for Wymington and also for Rushden F.C.

Eric was based at Bassingbourn, Cambridgeshire serving in the 11 Operational Training Unit at the time his death was recorded.
Contributor: Karen May (50644520)

  Noted events in his life were:

1. Military: WW2, 1939-1945.

Eric married Margaret Edith BLACKWELL [7920] [MRIN: 2524], daughter of Thomas Harold BLACKWELL [1558] and Edith Brown SARGENT [5366], in Jun 1940 in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, England.⁶⁶⁹⁸ (Margaret Edith BLACKWELL [7920] was born on 13 Mar 1916 in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, England ⁶⁶⁹⁹ and died in Aug 2005 in Kettering, Northamptonshire, England ⁶⁷⁰⁰.)