Eileen Mary Elsie Steuart IEVERS Matron 206235 QAIMNS of 10 General Hospital London Orphans School Watford
Elder daughter of Colonel 5978 Colonel Osburne G. Ievers C.B., D'.S.O., M.B.
Officer Commanding Royal Army Medical Corps Nora C Ievers. The family lived for nearly 30 years at 1. Pittville Terrace, Cheltenham
1939 Her parents were residing at “Whitegables” Chewton Farm Road, Christchurch, Hampshire. He was a retired Major-General. R.A.M.C.
Killed at sea on the 12th February 1944 whilst on the SS Khedive Ismail. The ship departed on the 6 February 1944 from Kilindini Harbour at Mombasa, Kenya to Colombo, Ceylon in Convoy KR-8. It was attacked and sunk by two torpedoes fired from a B1 type Japanese submarine in the Indian Ocean, 1,297 perished. Commemorated on the Brookwood 1939-1945 Memorial, Surrey.
Wills and Admin, Ancestry.
Eileen Mary Elsie Steuart Ievers of 10 General Hospital London Orphans School Watford, spinster, died at sea on date stated. Her effects went to Joyce Marjorie Doreen Davis, wife of Charles Arthur Lyulp Davis.
Some records have the first part of her name as Eileen Moira, London Gazette and CWGC have Eileen Mary.
Chronicle - Saturday 29 April 1944
ARMY NURSE DIES AT SEA
The death has taken place at sea due to enemy action of Miss Eileen Moira Elsie Stuart Ievers, A.R.R.C. Matron in Queen Alexandea’s Imperial Military Nursing Service. Miss Ievers was the elder of the late Col. O.G. Ivers (O.C.) and Mrs Ievers. The family lived for nearly 30 years at 1. Pittville Terrace, Cheltenham
