Mark Jonah Angel

Private, Pioneer Corps
Service no: 13091871
Died 14 Jan 1942
Buried Rainsough Jewish Cemetery, United Kingdom
Age 24

Headstone Inscription
‘IN LOVING MEMORY OF OUR DEAR ELDEST SON MARK. SADLY MISSED BY HIS FAMILY. MAY HIS SOUL REST IN PEACE’


Mark was born on 22 August 1917 in Salford, Lancashire to Polish parents Samuel and Isabella nee Steafel and he had two younger siblings, Harold and Elaine. In 1921, the family lived at 62 Trafalgar Street, Broughton in Salford where Samuel worked as a cabinet maker. After leaving school Mark worked alongside his father also as a cabinet maker before enlisting into the Pioneer Corps at the outbreak of WW2.

Mark was working in a hut with three other soldiers and a witness Samuel Clayton saw a strange object in one of the soldiers hands. Clayton left the hut and was about 30 yards away when he heard an explosion. He ran back and saw that a vice on a bench in the hut had been blown to pieces. The explosion killed Mark and two other soldiers. The Coroner ruled a verdict of accidental death in each case.

Folkestone, Hythe and District Herald, 24 Jan 1942