GOYMER, VALENTINE JELLICOE Rank: Marine Service No: PO/X 1862 Date of Death: 10/03/1941 Age: 26 Regiment/Service: Royal Marines Grave Reference: Plot 173. Grave 50. Cemetery: GOSPORT (ANN'S HILL) CEMETERY Additional Information: Son of John and Ellen Jane Goymer, of Forton, Gosport; husband of May Goymer who died in the same incident. His brother Ernest William Richard also died on service.Casualty Details Marine Valentine Jellicoe Goymer ( - 1941) - Find A Grave Photos
His Wife GOYMER, MAY Rank: Civilian Date of Death: 10/03/1941 Age: 19 Regiment/Service: Civilian War Dead Reporting Authority: GOSPORT, MUNICIPAL BOROUGH Additional Information: of 58 Avenue Road. Daughter of William and Aurelia Burrage; wife of Valentine Jellicoe Goymer, Royal Marines (killed in same incident). Died at 58 Avenue Road.
His Brother who died three weeks later http://www.naval-history.net/xDKCas1941-03MAR.htm GOYMER, ERNEST WILLIAM RICHARD Rank: Musician Service No: RMB/X 920 Date of Death: 31/03/1941 Age: 19 Regiment/Service: Royal Marine Band H.M.S. Bonaventure Panel Reference: Panel 59, Column 3. Memorial: PORTSMOUTH NAVAL MEMORIAL Additional Information: Son of John Goymer, and of Ellen Jane Goymer, of Forton, Gosport, Hampshire. His brother, Valentine Jellicoe Goymer, also died on service.
Valentine Jellicoe Goymer in the UK, British Army and Navy Birth, Marriage and Death Records, 1730-1960 Name: Valentine Jellicoe Goymer Event: Death Birth Date: 24 Jun 1916 Birth Place: Gosport, Hants Death Date: 10 Mar 1941 Death Age: 24 1 = Died on war service Yet he also has a civil death cert ?? Name: Valentine J Goymer Birth Date: abt 1915 Date of Registration: Mar 1941 Age at Death: 26 Registration district: Gosport Inferred County: Hampshire Volume: 2b Page: 1730 Again it might have been an accident or perhaps a bombing raid?? May Goymer in the UK, WWII Civilian Deaths, 1939-1945 Name: May Goymer Estimated birth year: abt 1922 Death Date: 10 Mar 1941 Death Place: Gosport, Hampshire, England Age at Death: 19 Father: William Burrage Mother: Aurelia Burrage England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007 Name: May Goymer Birth Date: abt 1922 Date of Registration: Mar 1941 Age at Death: 19 Registration district: Gosport Inferred County: Hampshire Volume: 2b Page: 1730 Ernest William Richard Goymer in the UK, British Army and Navy Birth, Marriage and Death Records, 1730-1960 Name: Ernest William Richard Goymer Event: Death Birth Date: 2 Nov 1921 Birth Place: Alverstoke, Hants. Death Date: 31 Mar 1941 Death Age: 19 2 = Missing - death or war service presumed TD
March 10, 1941 (Monday) A nighttime German bombing raid on Portsmouth sank a minesweeping trawler and damaged three destroyers, a training ship and four other minesweeping trawlers. Portsmouth and the Blitz The second Blitz - 10th March 1941 Two months later the second Blitz took place on the night of 10-11th March. Although serious damage was caused by the thousands of incendiaries and hundreds of high explosive bombs, the city coped rather well with the attack and the next day still went about its usual business as far as possible. The Records of the Corporation (pp. 186-187) mention large numbers of auxiliary fire service reinforcements having been brought into the city to help with the clearing up and securing the damaged houses. That night over a thousand people were rendered homeless, 93 were killed and over 250 injured. Although technically not part of the second Blitz, the attacks on Portsmouth continued the following day, 11th March, when another couple of thousand incendiaries and hundreds of HE bombs were dropped over the city. TD
HMS Bonaventure, British AA cruiser, WW2 30th March 1941 Joined HM Destroyers HEREWARD, GRIFFIN and STUART (RAN) for escort of military Convoy GAS on passage to Alexandria (Operation LUSTRE). Under attack by Italian submarine DAGABUR which was unsuccessful. Torpedoed amidships on starboard side by Italian submarine AMBRA off Sollum. Extensive flooding caused sinking within 6 minutes. 310 of crew rescued by HMS HEREWARD and HMAS STUART. (Note: Official Casualty List was published on 17th May 1941.) (Casualty List - note on casualties) TD
