Harry Cashmaker

Private, Pioneer Corps
332 Coy.
Service no: 14294690
Died 16 Dec 1944
Buried Schoonselhof Cemetery, Belgium
Age 43

Headstone Inscription
‘NEVER WILL I FORGET MY DARLING. LOVED BY ALL WHO KNEW HIM. REST IN PEACE’


Harry (Hannach) was born on 18 January 1901 in St George in the East, London to Russian parents Simon and Annie and he had five siblings. Harry worked as a tailor and married Victoria Falk in Stepney, London in 1932.

Harry enlisted into the Pioneer Corps and was serving in Belgium. Harry was on leave and at the Rex Cinema in Antwerp when a German V-2 rocket landed on the roof. The destruction was total. The death toll was 567 casualties to soldiers and civilians, 291 injured and 11 buildings were destroyed. 296 of the dead & 194 of the injured were US, British, & Canadian soldiers. This was the single highest death total from one rocket attack during the war in Europe.

Token for Harry on his father-in-laws grave at Willesden Jewish Cemetery. Photo courtesy of Stan Kaye.
Belgium 1938, Harry and his wife Vicky schoonselhof (inmemories.com)