{"id":16808,"date":"2022-01-28T08:25:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-28T08:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/?page_id=16808"},"modified":"2023-06-05T10:12:58","modified_gmt":"2023-06-05T10:12:58","slug":"cohen-ellis","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/navy\/cohen-ellis\/","title":{"rendered":"Cohen, Ellis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\" id=\"name\">Ellis Cohen<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Ordinary Seaman, H.M.S. Kelly<br>Service number C\/JX 196806<br>Died 23 May 1941<br>Commemorated on Chatham Naval Memorial <br>Age 24<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns has-2-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-layout-1 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Ellis was born on 30 November 1916 In Manchester, England to Poland born parents Aaron, a tailor, and Lena nee Berman and he had a younger sister Sarah. In 1939, the family lived at 99 Heywood Street, Manchester and Ellis was working as a cloth merchant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ellis joined the Royal Navy at the outbreak of war and was serving on HMS Kelly when he was killed. The captain of the ship was Lord Louis Mountbatten and the ship was lost during the Battle of Crete. Captain Lord Louis Mountbatten had been withdrawing at full speed since dawn and at 0755 hours, after surviving two air attacks without suffering damage, he was about 13 nautical miles to the southward of Gavdos Island when his ships were attacked by a force of 24 Ju.87 dive bombers. A large bomb struck the\u00a0Kelly\u00a0while she was doing 30 knots under full starboard rudder. She turned turtle to port with considerable way on, and after floating upside down for about half an hour, finally sank. In accordance with earlier practice the dive bombers then machine-gunned the survivors in the water, killing and wounding several.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/ELLIS-COHEN.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27556\" width=\"405\" height=\"568\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/ELLIS-COHEN.jpg 219w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/ELLIS-COHEN-120x168.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 405px) 100vw, 405px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ellis Cohen Ordinary Seaman, H.M.S. 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