Benjamin Cohen

Air Gunner, 166 Squadron
Service number 1523141
Died 25 April 1944
Buried Avesnes-Sur-Helpe Communal Cemetery, France
Age 22

Headstone Inscription
‘IN MEMORY OF OUR SON. MAY HIS DEAR SOUL REST IN PEACE. MOURNED BY PARENTS & FAMILY’


Benjamin was born on 9 Aug 1921 the son of Tullie and Sarah née Herman of Liverpool, Lancashire.

Tullie and Sarah were both from central Ukraine and married at the Central Islington Synagogue in Liverpool in 1915. Benny had three older siblings, Maurice, Annie and Sydney.

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