Service Number: 2132500 - 757 Field Company, Royal Engineers
Birth 4 September 1915, Hatfield, Hertfordshire
Died 29 October 1944, age 29
Son of John and Mary Ann Venables, of Hatfield, Hertfordshire
Personal Inscription: SWEETEST MEMORIES FOND AND TRUE WILL OVER REMAIN IN OUR HEARTS FOR YOU
BERGEN-OP-ZOOM WAR CEMETERY 7. B. 7.
Joseph Venables died on 29 October 1944 in Nispen, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands, when he was 29 years old. Both G. Wallace and J. Venables were killed when clearing mines on the road from Esschen to Nispen. The particular incident was mentioned in the War Diary of the 757th Field Company, Royal Engineers. Both soldiers were buried in a field grave close to the road junction of Maststraat and Eerenburg northwest of Nispen, and then reburied in the cemetery of Bergen op Zoom.
Interesting to note on the temporary war memorial in Nispen, the name was mentioned as Venables J.A.S. listing his first names in smaller font.