HARVEY, John Richard Gell

John was born 1922 in Newport to John Bernard & Maud Mary (nee GELL) HARVEY who were living at Atherfield in Chale around the time of John’s death.

John, aged 19, was part of a Blenheim aircraft crew, having recently completed his training in Canada, & which took off from RAF Wattisham. They were hit by flak & eventually crashed into the English Channel. All three crew were lost, but John's body was recovered after washing ashore, & buried at St. James' Church, Kingston on the Isle of Wight beneath a Private Memorial within the churchyard.