{"id":17145,"date":"2022-01-28T09:25:17","date_gmt":"2022-01-28T09:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/?page_id=17145"},"modified":"2022-04-28T12:13:34","modified_gmt":"2022-04-28T12:13:34","slug":"franks-leonard","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/merchant-navy\/franks-leonard\/","title":{"rendered":"Franks, Leonard"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\" id=\"name\">Leonard Franks<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Second Radio Officer, S.S. Jonathan Holt<br>Died 24 Feb 1941<br>Commemorated at Tower Hill Memorial<br>Age 29<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\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>Leonard was born on 8 February 1912 in Prestwich, Lancashire to Myer and Polish mother Rose nee Freedman and he had a younger brother Harold. Myer had various jobs including a cigarette maker, a draper and a retail manager. The family lived at 264 Clifton Drive, St Anne&#8217;s on Sea, and in 1939, Leonard was working as a travelling salesman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Leonard was the second radio officer on S.S. Jonathan Holt which was a British cargo steamer. On the 24th February 1941 the ship was en route from Liverpool for the West coast of Africa carrying a general cargo. 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