{"id":19007,"date":"2023-06-03T06:51:54","date_gmt":"2023-06-03T06:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/?page_id=19007"},"modified":"2023-06-03T06:51:55","modified_gmt":"2023-06-03T06:51:55","slug":"berger-gerald-photo","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/army\/berger-gerald-photo\/","title":{"rendered":"Berger, Gerald"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\" id=\"name\">Gerald Berger<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Trooper, Royal Armoured Corps<br>11th Hussars.<br>Service number: 14322863<br>Died 7 Aug 1944<br>Buried Bayeux War Cemetery, France <br>Age 20<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Headstone Inscription<br>&#8216;ONLY CHILD OF E. AND C. BERGER MAY HIS DEAR SOUL REST IN PEACE. <br>A GREAT SOLDIER&#8217;<\/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 4 May 1924 in Liverpool to Polish father Ely Hilel Berger and American mother Celia nee Friedman. Gerald lived with his parents at 9 Newstead Road, Liverpool and attended Morrison County primary school followed by the Liverpool Institute until 1940. Whilst at the Liverpool Institute he was a member of the Officer Training Corps and it was against this background that he joined the 11th Hussars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gerald served as a gunner in 5-Troop, C Squadron, which arrived in Normandy on 9 June, three days after D-Day. The general movement of British troops in Normandy was to the south-east, towards the town of Alencon, and the following weeks saw many casualties. &#8216;<em>In the early evening (17.44) on 7 August 1944 the leading car of 5 Troop ran into the forward enemy defence in thick woods. Immediately it received a direct hit from a 75mm gun which destroyed the car and killed the driver Trooper H Johnson and the operator\/gunner Trooper G Berger. The commander, Sgt Thompson escaped with burns to his face and hands.&#8217; <\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gerald was engaged to be married to a girl from a well-known Jewish family in Liverpool and it transpired that she was pregnant by him. She gave birth to a baby girl in 1944 but her family removed the child without her knowledge and she was adopted out of the family and was raised as a Catholic. It was only when she was thirty-nine and after a great deal of research and investigation that she discovered the identity of her parents. Her mother had eventually married but kept a photo of Gerald which she gave to her daughter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Grateful thanks to Saul Marks for Gerald&#8217;s story.<\/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\/05\/1894_00007-BERGER-Trooper-Gerald-14322863-600px.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21685\" width=\"399\" height=\"573\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/1894_00007-BERGER-Trooper-Gerald-14322863-600px.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/1894_00007-BERGER-Trooper-Gerald-14322863-600px-120x172.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Courtesy Saul Marks<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"1051\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/GERALD-BERGER-700x1051.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21686\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/GERALD-BERGER-700x1051.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/GERALD-BERGER-250x375.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/GERALD-BERGER-768x1153.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/GERALD-BERGER-120x180.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/GERALD-BERGER.jpg 799w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/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":"Gerald Berger Trooper, Royal Armoured Corps11th Hussars.Service number: 14322863Died 7 Aug 1944Buried Bayeux War Cemetery, France Age 20 Headstone Inscription&#8216;ONLY CHILD OF E. 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