Private Jack Mourant
1st/6th Battalion, Hampshire Regiment
9/11/1918
Only son of Mr & Mrs Mourant of 8 Dorking Villas,
Apsley Road, St Helier, Jersey. Formerly employed by
Messrs Noel & Porter as a carpet fitter.
Died of dysentry at Basra, aged 31 years.
NEWS ITEM in Jersey Evening Post
of Monday 27 January 1919
Roll of Honour. News has been received
in the Island of the death which occurred at Basra on
9 November last from dysentery of Private Jack Mourant
of the Hampshire Regiment. The deceased, who was 31,
was the only son of Mr & Mrs Mourant of Dorking
Villas, Apsley Road. He was formerly employed at Messrs
Noel & Porter as a carpet fitter and was very popular
with his fellow employees. He went out to Mesopotamia
about 16 months ago. He was a member of the Jersey Mechanics
Institute and also a member of the Yarborough Lodge
Freemasons. We tender our sincere sympathy to the bereaved
father & mother and other members of the family
and also Miss L Carter, the deceased's fiancee.
