Jarvis Harold Bertie Lance Corporal 2149304
Personnel Entry
Name Jarvis Harold Bertie
Army number 2149304.
Rank Lance Corporal.
Decorations None known beyond Service Awards
Date of birth Born 25/12/1916 in Stamford, Lincolnshire. Mother's maiden surname Davison.
Age (At time of death) 27.
Unit Posted to 294th Field Company, Royal Engineers. Served Normandy. KILLED in ACTION 24/10/1944.
Company/Battery
Platoon or other sub-unit Not yet known.
Task or role Details awaited.
Joined Brigade Not yet known.
Promotions None known.
Wounded Not so far as is known.
Prisoner of War Not so far as is known.
Died/Killed in action KILLED in ACTION 24/10/1944. Interred initially in Wuustwezel Goorkind Churchyard. Re-buried 12/3/1958 in Adegem Canadian War Cemetery - Grave XII. G. 7. Headstone inscription reads "LOVE'S LAST GIFT - REMEMBRANCE".
Home address Son of James and Elizabeth Jarvis: husband of Winifred Hilda Jarvis, of Castle Bytham. Lincs. At the time of the 1939 General Register he was single and living with his mother at 31, Heathcote Road, South Kesteven and serving as an Air Raid Warden while working as a Stone Quarryman. Married Winifred Hilda Griffin Q3 1942.
Source table
Some information on this Page has been extracted from the Commemorative Booklet, prepared by Major Langley, covering the period from D-Day to VE Day in addition to that extracted from the War Diaries. There are issues around the possible duplication of names which remain to be clarified.
