Name
John Henry Jevons
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
13/10/1915
57
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Civilian
NA
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hertford Town Memorial
Pre War
Born in 1858 in Pensnett, Staffordshire and was living in 65a Ware Road, Hertford with his wife Emily and two surviving children in 1911. He was a civil engineer and Borough Surveyor.
Wartime Service
He had been attending the Hertford Conservative Club in Bull Plain and was killed by a Zeppelin raid. Oberleutnant-zur-See W. Peterson, in the then new German Zeppelin L16, bombed Hertford at 2200 on 13 Oct 1915 after mistaking the River Lea for the Thames. He thought that he was attacking East London when he dropped 48 incendiary and explosive bombs. The bombs from L16 killed 9 people and injured 15.
Additional Information
Not in the CWGC records.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox
