Jacob Kaufman

Gunner, Royal Artillery
55 (The West Somerset Yeomanry) Field Regt.
Service number: 1713392
Died 4 Jul 1946
Buried Willesden Jewish Cemetery, United Kingdom
Age 36

Headstone Inscription
‘DEEPLY MOURNED BY HIS WIFE, SONS, MOTHER, SISTERS, BROTHERS, RELATIVES AND FRIENDS.
REST IN PEACE’


Jacob was born on 5 Oct 1909 in Mile End Old Town, London to Ukrainian born parents Michael and Katie nee Pletz and he was the eldest son in a family of nine children. Their father Michael was a cloth dealer who died aged forty-five in 1928.

Jacob worked as a hardware salesman and married Rachel Kruger in 1932 in Hackney, London, and they had two sons, Michael and Ivor. During the war Jacob was a gunner in the Royal Artillery.

Jacob died suddenly on 4 July 1946 and his death details are found below.

Courtesy Stanley Kaye
Jewish Chronicle