Sergeant Ernest Jarvis served with Airborne Forces as part of 7th (Light Infantry) Parachute Battalion during the Second World War, and was killed in Normandy.
Ernest William Jarvis transferred to Airborne Forces from the Worcester Regiment (possibly 2nd Battalion), and completed Parachute Course 30 at RAF Chaklala in India, before returning to the UK, where he was posted to 7th (Light Infantry) Parachute Battalion as part of the new 6th Airborne Division. On 6 June 1944, Sergeant Jarvis took part in the D-Day landings to Normandy, during Op Overlord.
Sergeant Jarvis died on 6 June 1944, aged 28 years old. He is now buried at La Deliverande War Cemetery, at Douvres-la-Deliverande, near Caen in Normandy.
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by Airborne Forces administratorArmy Roll of Honour: World War II supplied by Naval and Military Press Ltd
- Name
- Ernest W Jarvis
- Rank
- Serjeant
- Service Number
- 5250009
- Regiment
- Parachute Regt (not otherwise specified)
- Date of Death
- 6/6/44
- Theatre of War
- Western Europe Campaign, 1944/45
