Name
Robert Stevens
Conflict
Second World War
Date of Death / Age
18/10/1940
24
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Able Seaman
C/JX 138854
Royal Navy
H.M. Submarine H.49.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
CHATHAM NAVAL MEMORIAL
36, 1.
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
NA
UK & Other Memorials
Hitchin Town Memorial, Tilehouse St. Baptist Church Memorial, Hitchin, Hitchin Roll of Honour 1939 – 1945 (Book) St Mary’s Church, Hitchin
Biography
His Service Number was C/JX 13854 and he was a member of the crew of H.M. Submarine ‘H.49’. The submarine was sunk near Terschelling by the German Submarine Chasers ‘UJ-116’ and ‘UJ-118’ under the command of Lieutenant Commander Kaden.
He has no known grave but is remembered on Panel 36 Column l of the Chatham Memorial to the Missing.
His parents were Frederick and Alice Stevens of Walsworth, Hitchin.
Acknowledgments
David C Baines – ‘Hitchin’s Century of Sacrifice’, ‘Chronology of the War at Sea’ by J Rohwer & G. Htunmelchen
