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Mrs EVE DOROTHY ISAACS -Miss MAUREEN EVELYN ISAACS Age 23 and 15 months Died 6.12.1940
Corporal THOMAS EDWIN STEVENS Corporal, 6204151 1st Battalion, Princess Louise’s Regiment, Age 30 Mrs
MARGERET STEVENS - Miss JOYCE A. STEVENS Master THOMAS EDWARD STEVENS Miss MARGERET ESTHER STEVENS Mast
KEITH FREDERICK STEVENS - Ages 30,25,9,4,30 mts, 13 mts
Corporal THOMAS EDWIN STEVENS, his wife MARGERET, daughters JOYCE A. and MARGERET ESTHER and sons THOMAS EDWARD and KEITH FREDERICK, were taking
shelter in No. 79 Avenue Road, Gosport on the night of Friday 6th December 1940, during an air-raid. Corporal Stevens regiment’, was based at the New Barracks (St. George’s) and he lived out
of the barracks. Also in the house were, Mrs EVE DOROTHY ISAACS and her daughter MAUREEN EVELYN.
Avenue Road had been struck by bombs on earlier occasions, Sadly that night, a bomb made a direct hit on No. 79. The whole area around the road,
received attention. The residential area was situated right next to the railway station and goods yard. Not far away, the naval barracks of St. Vincent, and the RN Fuel Depot in Forton Road. Which of
these targets were, the real point of aim will never be known. For the occupants of No. 79 Avenue Road, it did not matter any longer. They were killed outright. The house disintegrated onto them. It was
not until the early hours of the morning that the bodies of the occupants were recovered.
Mrs DOROTHY ISAACS and her daughter, were buried, Plot 165 Space 46, and are commemorated by a Family Memorial headstone. Corporal THOMAS EDWIN
STEVENS, his wife, daughters and sons were buried, Plot 165 Space 53, and are commemorated by a CWG and Family Memorial headstone. They were laid to rest on Tuesday 13th December 1940.
Constable JOHN IVERY, R.M.P. PO/RMP/X 39, Constable, Royal Military Police. Age 56 Died 12.1.1945
Constable JOHN IVERY, Royal Military Police, was the son of Mr and Mrs John Ivery. He was married to Florence Ada, and they lived at No. 63,
Cobden Street, Gosport. He died at home on Friday 12th January 1945, of illness, attributed to his war service. Constable JOHN IVERY, R.M.P., was buried on Tuesday 16th January 1945, and is laid to rest,
Plot 7 Space 39, and is commemorated by a CWG headstone.
Lieutenant HARRY CLAUDE JACK, R.F.C. 2nd Lieutenant, Royal Flying Corps Age 23 Died 11.8.1916
Lieutenant HARRY CLAUDE JACK, Royal Flying Corps, was born on the 4th of November 1892, the son of Henry Joseph and Emily Jack, of Maeman Manor,
Llanwrst, Wales. He was educated at Taplow, Brussels, and London University. He had served in the Royal Engineers Territorial Force before he went to work for the constructional engineering staff of both
the Canadian Pacific and then the Boston and Albany Railway Companies. He returned home with the outbreak of hostilities to join the Royal Engineers Expeditionary Force. Following a transfer to
Sandhurst, he was gazetted to a permanent commission with the Highland Light Infantry, becoming attached to the R.F.C. from that Regiment.
Lieutenant Jack had completed the flying course of the School of Special Flying, and had been transferred to No. 41 Squadron on the 11th of
August 1916 for higher instruction. On the morning of the 1st of September that year he took-off from grange aerodrome, he was flying a Henri Farman F20 aeroplane, service no 7445. Lt. Jack had been flying for about fifteen minutes, he was observed from the ground to be at a height of about 600 feet the machine made a right hand turn, losing some 100 feet in the process, it then nose-dived into the ground in a field some two and a half miles from the aerodrome. The machine exploded on impact and caught fire; Lt. Jack had been thrown some thirty feet away from the blazing aeroplane by the crash. A Company of soldier’s who were drilling near the crash site, hastened to the spot, having seen the machine fall. The Commanding Officer, Lieutenant Johnson, later testified at the inquest, that: “I heard an explosion, and saw a column of thick black smoke billow up to a height of some 60 feet. We arrived to find the pilot some thirty feet away from the blazing aeroplane. He was not burned, but was dead.” A medical officer examined Lieutenant Jack, and stated “ He had a fractured skull, and was instantly killed by the crash. The force of which threw him from the cockpit.” The Inquest concluded that: “ The accident was attributed to the fact that Lt. Jack attempted to make a flat turn. The aeroplane lost too much speed, and stalled.” The Coroner returned a verdict of “accidental death”.
Lieutenant HARRY CLAUDE JACK, R.F.C., was buried on the 25th September 1916, and is laid to rest, Plot 30 Space 34, and is commemorated by a
Family Memorial.
Mr WILFRED JACKSON 6 Chapel Road, Gosport. Age 61 Died 14.6.1941
SEE – Mr WILLIAM HENRY BARNES
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