{"id":18838,"date":"2022-11-13T05:59:24","date_gmt":"2022-11-13T05:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/?page_id=18838"},"modified":"2022-11-28T09:29:11","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T09:29:11","slug":"abelson-gerald-sydney","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/army\/abelson-gerald-sydney\/","title":{"rendered":"Abelson, Gerald Sydney"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\" id=\"name\">Gerald Sydney Abelson<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Gunner, Royal Artillery<br>11 Field Regt. <br>Service number: 996258<br>Died 28 Jun 1942<br>Buried El Alamein War Cemetery, Egypt <br>Age 42<\/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>Gerald was born on 24 May 1902 in Leeds, Yorkshire to Lithuania born Albert Meyer Abelson and Flora nee Greenberg and he had three sisters, Stella, Evelyn and Freda and a brother Benjamin. Their parents married in Leeds in 1897 and divorced on 5 March 1915. Albert who worked as a tailor then emigrated to Chicago, Illinois where he died in 1943. Gerald&#8217;s siblings Evelyn and Benjamin also emigrated to Chicago where they became citizens. 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