David Cohen

Ordinary Seaman, H.M.S. Raleigh
Service number JX/416551
Died 29 Mar 1943
Buried Blackley Jewish Cemetery, Manchester
Age 18


David was born on 24 May 1924 in Sheffield, South Yorkshire to Manchester born father Reuben, a crockery and hardware dealer, and Bertha nee Stern and he had an older brother Harold.

David enlisted into the Royal Navy and was based at HMS Raleigh in Torpoint, Cornwall waiting to be assigned a Port Division. He fell ill and was admitted to the Royal Navy sick quarters at HMS Raleigh. His records state that he died from Broncho-Pneumonia and Uraemia.