Leonard Vincent Jervis
In 1939 Leonard was a colliery haulage (under-ground) worker.
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Son of Elias and Ethel Jervis, of 30 Third Avenue, Clipstone, Nottinghamshire.
Ethel had been married before, to Samuel Mason who had died in WW1. Pvt Samuel Mason, Royal Army Medical Corp, 72nd Field Ambulance died in Macedonia, 11th Dec 1917. She and Samuel had 3 sons, John, Wilfred and Percival (Percy). She married Elias on 15th February 1919 who was 11 years younger than her and they lived at 96 Cochane Terrace, Stanton Hill, which had been where she and Samuel lived in 1911. She had 2 children with Elias, Leonard in May 1919 and Marjorie born in 1924.
By 1939 they had moved to Clipstone.
Captured at the Fall of Singapore, Leonard died of dysentry whilst working on the Thailand-Burma Railway.
Mansfield Chronicle Advertiser: 15/11/1945: News of Local Soldiers; Information Sought.
Mrs E Jarvis of 30 Third Avenue Clipstone is anxious to know if any prisoners released from Camp No1 Thailand can give her any information regarding her son Gunner Leonard Jervis (26) of a Heavy A.A. unit who is reported to have died in August 1943. Gunner Jervis was taken prisoner at Singapore. His mother received postcards from him in September and December 1943.
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