Lieutenant Jervis Alston HEAD (1936)

137th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery
Born 7 March 1918 in Cork, Ireland
Died 15 March 1941, aged 23
Buried at Durrington Cemetery, Wiltshire.

Jervis Head was the son of Raymond Evelyn Head & Margaret Lloyd, née Williamson.

He was educated at Westminster School. He joined up shortly after coming down from Oxford; at the time of his death he was living in Golders Green, North London.

He died at around 7:00pm on 15 March 1941 at Royal Victoria & West Hampshire Hospital, Boscombe, Bournemouth, after a motor accident; his Morgan three-wheeler struck a road island and overturned at the junction of the Bournemouth and Poole roads to Ringwood at Ferndown.