| Born | Beryl May JORDAN | 14-Jan-1925 1 5 |
| Location | Mt Morgan, QLD | |
| Eyes | Green | |
| Hair | Fair | |
| Height | 4' 11" | |
| Father | Willie Alexander | |
| Mother | Ada May BENSON | |
| Brothers | ||
| William Harold | 18-Mar-1915 | |
| Sisters | ||
| Alma Alice Flora | 17-May-1916 | |
| Marriage | Donald James JESSEP | 11-Aug-1945 3 |
| Location | Gympie QLD | |
| Children | ||
| Lorraine May | 19-May-1946 | |
| Dennis James | 18-Feb-1949 | |
| William Alexander | ||
Military Honours
Medals Awarded are:
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| Australian Service Medal 1939-45 | War Medal 1939-45 |
My father was the schoolmaster at Mt Morgan when I was born. Later our family moved to Charters Towers. I joined the Women's Australian Auxiliary Air Force where I met my future husband Donald James Jessep. On the 13 Jul 1945 I was discharged from the WAAAF and began organising my wedding. Donald was due to arrive back from Service in Borneo and the plan was to be married in Gympie on 11 August 1945. The headlines of the Brisbane paper had a wonderful wedding present "WAR Over" . This made the wedding day a little more challenging as there was almost no transport for us to leave on our honeymoon.
We left Queensland for Sydney where Don had a Job lined up as a Technician for the Post Master General (PMG). All was going well and we started a family soon after arriving in Sydney. On Sunday 19 May during a Storm reported in the Sydney Morning Hearld "Tornado Force" Lorraine May arrived making us very happy in deed.
House plans were made and a loan obtained when disaster happened. Our builder went bankrupt and we lost our dream house. By this time our family had grown to two. Lorraine and Dennis.
With no prospect of getting our money back or a house in Sydney we moved back to Brisbane and were able to purchase a small new home in Manly. Don was able to transfer his job to the local Wynnum PMG exchange. Over the years we added extensions to the house. My mother and Father moved an old Queenslander on the land beside us at Manly. The area was growing rapidly despite being some distance from the main city centre of Brisbane.
Following the death of my father in Aug 1954 our family grew again with the arrival of William named after him.
I was diagnosed in 1969 as a diabetic.
| Died | Tenterfield | 02-Aug-1996 4 |
| Buried | Hemmant | 20-Aug-1996 |
| Location | Wall on right from main gate |
Reference
1 Beryl May Jordan, birth certificate No 11015 ( 14-Jan-1925), District Registrar Office, Mt Morgan.
2 Australian Military Forces, " Record Search," Digital Image, Australian Government, National Archives of Australia( http://www.naa.gov.au/collection/recordsearch/index.aspx: Viewed 2010), Beryl May JORDAN; Citing National Archives © Commonwealth of Australia 2010; Series Number , Barcode Ref 101663.
3 Marriage for Donald James Jessep and Beryl May Jordan, 11-Aug-1945, 28051956, Registrar General; Birth deaths and marriages registry, Brisbane.
4 Beryl Jessep, death certificate Form PR315, Registration of Birth Deaths and Marriages, NSW.
5 Certificate of Baptism for Beryl May Jordan, 26-Mar-1925,, Methodist Church of Australasia; Original Held By Jessep.com, Brisbane.
6 Electroal Roll for Jessep, 1949, p.74 Subdivision of Waverley, Australian Federal Government; National Archives, Canberra.
7 Electroal Roll for Jessep, 1949, p.16 Subdivision of Wynnum, Australian Federal Government; National Archives, Canberra.
8 Electroal Roll for Jessep, 1954, p.108 Subdivision of Wynnum, Australian Federal Government; National Archives, Canberra.
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