JERVIS Harry

  • First Name(s):
    Harry 
  • Surname:
    JERVIS
  • Service Number:
    68051
  • Rank:

    Private

  • Conflict:
    WW1
  • Service:
    Army
  • Army Sector:
    Infantry
  • Regiment:
    Royal Fusiliers
  • Battalion:
    7th Battalion
  • Former Units:
    Formerly 5616, 2nd/5th Queen's Royal West Surrey Regiment.
  • Date of Death:
    30th October 1917
  • Age At Death:
  • Cause of Death:
    Killed in action
  • Place of Death:
    Unknown
  • Place of Burial:
    Commemorated on Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium, Panel 28 to 30 and 162 to 162A and 163A.
  • Place of Birth:
    Unknown
  • Home Town:
    Unknown
  • Casualty's Relatives:
    Unknown
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JERVIS Harry Is Named On These Memorials

Great Hampton Parochial School now in Hampton St Andrews C of E First School
Hampton St Andrew’s Church WW1 Memorial
Hampton War Memorial

Notes About The Memorial(s) Listed Above

Hampton St Andrew’s Church WW1 Memorial with the additional information: R. Fus.

Further Information About JERVIS Harry

Resident Great Hampton, enlisted Evesham.

Appears in the Worcester/Worcestershire Roll of Honour Book for army casualties located in Worcester Cathedral under Hampton casualties.

Evesham Journal and Four Shires Advertiser, 8th December 1917:
HAMPTON MAN KILLED IN ACTION
Official information has been received that Pte. Harry Jervis of the Royal Fusiliers (son of Mr. and Mrs. James Jervis, of Great Hampton), was killed in action on October 30. The deceased soldier was 20 years of age last May, and joined the army twelve month ago last May. He was home on furlough in August prior to going to France. At the time he enlisted he was boat keeper to the Evesham Rowing Club, which position he had held for about three years, and was much respected by the members. We shall give a photograph of Pte. Jervis next week.

(Harry was the son of James and Fanny Jervis (nee Newman) who were married in 1891.)

The clock on Hampton St Andrew’s Church is a war memorial to WW1 and is inscribed with the words: War Memorial 1914-18.

The tenor bell is inscribed “also in memory of the sons of Hampton who died for the sacred cause of liberty and freedom”.

Harry Jervis has no known grave, the photograph available shows his name on Tyne Cot Memorial.

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Credits: Evesham Journal and parents details researched and transcribed by Peter Stewart. Inscription on the church bells courtesy of John Smith.