John Richard ABBAY [23611]

   Cause of his death was sporting gun accident.

  General Notes:

Births.
Abbay. On the 28th August, at Polperro, Cornwall, the wife of captain Brian Norman Abbay, 27th Light Cavalry, LA, of a son.

Abbay John Richard
Son (with one sister, who married Lt.Col. I.J.D. Stevenson-Hamilton Army_officers_S02.html) of Col. Bryan Norman Abbay, CB (1881-1947), and Etty Maud
Julius (1891-1983) [divorced; she remarried L.B.L. Hughes], of East Soham, Suffolk, and Meru, Kenya.
Born
28 Aug 1915
Polperro, Liskeard district, Cornwall
Died
12.06.1941
Cirencester district, Gloucestershire / Wiltshire (sporting-gun accident)
[Oxford Crematorium]

2nd Lt..27.08.1936
Lt.27.08.1939
T/Capt.late 1940

Education: Dulwich College (1933-1934; boarder in The Orchard); Royal Military College, Sandhurst (31.08.1934-1936) [personal information sheet ].
Member, Essex Union Hunt.
27.08.1936 commissioned; The Essex Regiment 27.08.1936 to 20.04.1939; 2nd Battalion The Essex Regiment (Warley) 21.04.1939 to 09.06.1939 Adjutant, 5th Battalion The Essex Regiment (Territorial Army) (temporarily) 10.06.1939 to 12.06.1941; 2nd/4th Battalion The Essex Regiment (UK, France [Dunkirk], Shropshire)
Ref: http://www.unithistories.com/officers/Army_officers_A01.html

Deaths.
Abbay. On June 12, 1941, result of sporting gun accident, John Richard Abbay, Capt. The Essex Regiment, son of Col Brian Abbay CB, beloved brother of Lorna, and nephew of Capt, and Mrs Hudson. Great Ruffins, Wickham Bishops, Essex, aged 25.
"Good luck have thou with thine honour: ride on because of the word of truth and righteousness".

Obituary
Lt John Richard Abbay. (1933 - 1934)
The Essex Regiment.
Born August 28, 1915. He was a boarder in The Orchard and after passing through Sandhurst was gazetted to the Essex Regiment in August 1936. He was posted to the 2nd Battalion and served at Warley until April 1939, when he went as temporary adjutant to the 5th Territorial Battalion. In August 1939 he was promoted lieutenant and soon after proceeded with his Regiment to France. He took part in the fighting in Belgium prior to the evacuation from Dunkirk his platoon acting as rearguard and covering the engineers as they blew up the bridges in the retreat to the coast. He was a keen horseman and rode in steeplechases. Until the outbreak of war he was a keen member of the Essex Union Hunt and while stationed in Shropshire after Dunkirk hearing that a famous old pack of foxhounds was going to be broken up, he took over half the pack, got his friends to help him and hunted the pack the whole season. He was promoted temporary captain at the end of 1940 and his untimely death on June 12, 1941, was the result of a sporting gun accident.
Ref : H Houterman www.unithistories.com

Abbay John Richard of Great Ruffins Wickham Bishops Essex died 12 June 1941 at Fairford Gloucestershire. Administration (limited) 8 September to Lorna Abbay spinster attorney of Brian Norman Abbaye. Effects L18 9s 7d
National Probate Calendar.