Nathaniel was born on 28 October 1916 in Hackney to Samuel and Annie nee Freedman. The family surname was originally Wilianski. Further information on the family is being researched. Nathaniel who was known as Sonny married Stella Segaloff on 11 December 1938 in Stepney and in 1939 they lived at 8 Westbourne Road in Lewisham. Nathaniel worked in the Post Office engraving department and Stella was a filing clerk. Their daughter Jacqueline was born in 1940 and Nathaniel enlisted just after she was born and worked as an electrician in 90 Squadron.

He died aged 25 at the Mount Sanitorium, Bishopstoke, Eastleigh in Hampshire from Chronic Pulmonary Tuberculosis.