Jack Henry Overy

A Sergeant with the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, Jack died on 24th of July 1941 at the age of 27. 

Jack was born at Lowestoft on 29 August 1913, a son of George Edward and Margaret Isabel Overy. He was baptised at Saint John’s Church on 19 September 1913 and his family lived at 23 Payne Street and this was still their home in 1939. 

Jack was an Air Gunner. In July 1941 he was flying in a Wellington IC aircraft, number N2747, of No 11 Operational Training Unit based at Bassingbourn, Cambridgeshire. On 24 July the aircraft was on a night flying exercise when it stalled and crashed at Whaddon ten miles southwest of Cambridge. Jack was the only member of the crew that died in the accident. 

WITH THANKS TO: Malcolm Barrass