Personal Life
Summers married Dulcie Jeanette Belcher in 1922 in Sculcoates, Yorkshire. He had a daughter, Josephine Ann Summers, born in 1931.
Summers died on 16 March 1954 from complications during colon surgery, six days after his 50th birthday. He was buried in Weybridge Cemetery, Surrey after a ceremony in Westminster Abbey.
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