Warren David De Solla

Gunner, Royal Artillery
518 Bty., 139 (M) H.A.A. Regt.
Service number: 6205964
Died 29 Dec 1943
Buried Willesden Jewish Cemetery, United Kingdom
Age 23

Headstone Inscription
‘ALWAYS IN OUR HEARTS DEEPLY MOURNED BY HIS FATHER, MOTHER AND SISTER’


Warren was born in July 1920 in Liverpool, Lancashire to London born parents Albert and Gertrude nee Simpson (Simsohn) and he had a younger sister Pamela. During WW1, Albert joined the Army in 1914 serving in Malta, Khartoum, Egypt and Palestine before joining the Royal Air Force on 1 April 1918. After being discharged in 1920 he worked for the Phillips Film Company as the branch manager in Liverpool. The family then moved back to London where Albert worked for the Unity Film Company. Albert was the eldest son of Henry de Solla who owned the Angel Cinema in Islington.

Warren enlisted in the Royal Artillery as a gunner and worked as a dispatch rider. On 25 December 1943 whilst riding a motorcycle on duty, he was in a head on collision with a lorry at Shardlow, Derbyshire. He suffered cerebral lacerations and multiple injuries and died in the Derbyshire Royal Infirmary four days later.