Mr William "Bill" Zdemonstration

​Bill was born in January 1931 in his parents home in Station Road Elsenham, He was the eldest child and had a sister Janice and a younger brother David. The family moved to Stansted where Bill attended grammar school in Newport. He completed school and immediately volunteered for the RAF. He became a flight servant and joined an operational squadron in early 1943 flying Hurricanes. He was on operations for a year and a half, when he was then transferred to the central flying school and spent the rest of the war training fighter pilots.

He was demobbed in early 1946 and joined the Prudential Assurance company working at first in their Holburn head office and later in his career he transferred to their Harlow centre. He met his wife Jenny whilst commuting into London from Bishops Stortford and they bought the house they were to live in for the next 52 years in 1954.  Their son Jeremy and daughter Anita followed and  the family settled in Barrels Down Road. Bill was a keen football player for Manuden after the war  and  when he had finished playing would often be seen at West Ham United with Jeremy. He also loved Cricket and had played for Manuden for many years and after hanging up his wicket keeping gloves, Will became treasurer and committee member for many years.

He and Jenny loved to travel and after their retirement were often off on another cruise to see the world. Tragically Jenny passed away in 2004 and shortly after Bill sold the family house moving into Elmhurst Nursing home. His sudden death after a short bout of pneumonia came as a great shock.

Thank you in advance all for your thought and donations, Jeremy and Chris, Anita and Tony and families