Jack David Stolerman

Driver, Royal Army Service Corps
Service number: T/1491209
Died 4 Dec 1940
Buried Willesden Jewish Cemetery, United Kingdom
Age 25

Headstone Inscription
‘IN CHERISHED AND UNFADING MEMORY OF JACK
ALWAYS IN THE THOUGHTS OF HIS DEVOTED FAMILY.
SHALOM’


Jack was born in October 1918 in Maidenhead, Berkshire to Bernard and Jane nee Jacobson who were both born in Odessa, Ukraine. Jack had six siblings and their father ran a furniture manufacturers.

Jack enlisted into the Royal Army Service Corps and trained as a driver. He was sent to France and was one of the many who were evacuated from the beaches at Dunkirk and died only a few months later. At the inquest into his death it was stated that he was dead on arrival at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading. Jack was on duty in a convoy of armoured cars which had halted on a main road about 6pm. He dismounted from the offside of an Army bus just as an anti-tank vehicle known as a Bison belonging to another convoy came up. Jack was knocked down and dragged a distance of about 15 yards. A verdict of accidental death was given.

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