Past Pupils

Donald Nabe Stevens (1941)

Sergeant 1893032
Air Gnr.
49 Sqdn., Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
who died on
Sunday 20th February 1944. Age 19.

Donald was at Tottenham Grammar School from 1936 - 1941.He was the son of William Nabe Stevens and Daisy Frances Stevens, from Lordship Lane, Tottenham.
He was a first class cricketer. A chorister at the Parish church.

In 1943 he was accepted for pilot training in the RAF. To avoid delay, he opted to join as a Sergeant Air-Gunner.
Failed to return from a raid on Leipzig due to adverse weather conditions.

He is buried in Hanover War Cemetery, Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany. (Grave Ref 4 F 7).

The cemetery is accessed from the motorway A2/E34, which runs between Dortmund and Berlin, turn off at Junction 40 onto the 441 in the direction of Hannover, Ahlem and Seelze. After 7 kilometres turn right at the sign for Harrenberg, along Seelzestrasse, and continue through Harrenberg to the T junction and then turn left towards Hannover. Hanover War Cemetery and Hanover Military Cemetery are on the left of this road, 3 kilometres from the boundary of Harrenberg.

Many of the graves in Hanover War Cemetery were brought in from prisoner of war camp cemeteries, small German cemeteries and from isolated positions in the surrounding country. The cemetery contains 2,403 Commonwealth burials of the Second World War, 62 of them unidentifed. There are also 39 non-war burials and ten war graves of other nationalities, most of them Polish. Hanover War Cemetery adjoins Hanover Military Cemetery, a substantial post war cemetery of more than 3,000 burials.