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Mrs KATHLEEN MAY HUNT - Mr DAVID JAMES HUNT Master ALFRED JOHN HUNT - Master ROY HUNT 135 Forton Road, Gosport, Ages 45, 18, 15 & 11 - Died 5.12.1940 SEE – Mr WILLIAM HENRY CHARLES CANDY
Captain JOHN BARZILLAI HURST, M.N. Captain, Merchant Navy Age 54 - Died 27.4.1941
On the night of Sunday 27th April 1941, the darkening skies heralded yet another air raid on the Gosport area. The main attack was targeting the
Portsmouth Dockyard area. During the intense air raid, besides the high explosive and incendiary bombs, parachute mines were also dropped. These huge explosive devices were much feared, and rightly so.
Descending under a parachute, they gently floated down, and were rigged to explode above ground level. This caused a huge blast wave, which brought about large-scale devastation and damage.
Captain JOHN BARZILLAI HURST, (54), a Captain in the Merchant navy, was staying at the popular ‘Madden’s Hotel, Landport, whilst he
rested awaiting his next command. A parachute mine came down directly on the hotel. The building crumpled to the ground, those inside, stood no chance, as tone of debris crushed them. The area around the
hotel, was also badly damaged. The rescue service’s had a terrible job of retrieving the bodies of the dead from under the mountain of debris marking the spot. Twenty-eight people in the hotel were
killed outright. Elsewhere a further one hundred people were killed, and 275 injured, and that was just the figures for Portsmouth.
Captain JOHN BARZILLAI HURST, M.N., was buried on Monday 5th May 1941, and is laid to rest, Plot 32 Space 58, and his final resting place is
marked by Family Memorial.
Private THOMAS HUTCHINSON, R.M.L.I. PO/21149, Private, Royal Marine Light Infantry. Age 55 Died 8.4.1920
Private THOMAS HUTCHINSON, Royal Marine Light Infantry, was the son of George and Thirza Hutchinson, of Nottingham. He was the husband of Emily
R., and they lived together in married quarters at No. 33 Durham Street, Gosport. Private Hutchinson, had been wounded during the First World War, he had been hospitalised, when he was returned to this
country. He had been riddled with shrapnel, and although many pieces had been removed, there were some which had to be left, as they to close to his vital organs. It as a result of this, that he
continued to be in pain. He was admitted in April 1920, to the Royal Naval Hospital at Haslar, Gosport, for further surgery, on the 8th he passed away, as complications set in after surgery.
Private THOMAS HUTCHINSON, R.M.L.I., was buried on the 13th April 1920, and is laid to rest, Plot 69 Space 47, and is commemorated by CWG
headstone.
Pilot Officer REGINALD CLAUDE HYETT, R.A.F 44539, Pilot Officer No. 93 Squadron, Royal Air Force. Age 29 Died 23.2.1941
Pilot Officer REGINALD CLAUDE HYETT, Royal Air Force, was the son of Arthur Henry and Eleanor Hyett of Gosport. He was married to Bertha Hyett,
and they lived at No. 23, Newlands Avenue, Gosport. Aged 29, Pilot Officer Hyett was serving with No. 93 Squadron part of No. 10 Group, Fighter Command.
On Sunday 23rd of February 1941, P/O Hyett took off for a routine flight, he was flying a Douglas Havoc Mk 2 aircraft, Reg. No. AX915, the time was 11.20am; he was the sole person aboard. The weather was cloudy and typical of a late February morning, it was thought that it was these conditions which led to the aircraft becoming lost, eventually flying into a barrage balloon cable, part of the anti-aircraft defences of the important railway town of Crewe. The aircraft having collided with the heavy cable crashed to the ground, falling in the grounds of Gresty Road Lodge, near Shavington, Crewe. Although after colliding with the barrage balloon cable and the subsequent crash, the aircraft did not catch fire, and local people rushing to the scene, hoping to help the crew, P/O Hyett was removed from the wreckage of his twin-engine fighter, but was sadly found to be dead.
Pilot Officer REGINALD CLAUDE HYETT, R.A.F., was buried on Tuesday 26th February 1941, and is laid to rest, Plot 40 Grave 82, a Family Memorial
headstone commemorates him.
Corporal WILLIAM RICHARD ILSLEY 11473, Corporal, Hampshire Regiment. Age 37 Died 13.8.1920
Corporal WILLIAM RICHARD ILSLEY, was the son of Mrs A. Pestell (formerly Ilsley). He was the husband of Emily, and they
lived at No. 11 Cleveland Road, Gosport. Corporal Ilsley, had been wounded in the fighting of the First World War, and had suffered as a result. He had been discharged medically, but could not return to
his former work, as he was in and out of hospital. After being admitted for further treatment, Corporal Ilsley, died on the 13th of August 1920. Corporal WILLIAM RICHARD ILSLEY was buried on 16th August
1920, Plot 131 Space 61, and is commemorated by a CWG headstone.
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