{"id":491,"date":"2019-10-25T07:52:26","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T07:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/?page_id=491"},"modified":"2021-01-28T12:27:50","modified_gmt":"2021-01-28T12:27:50","slug":"jacobs-henry-emanuel","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/raf\/jacobs-henry-emanuel\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacobs, Henry Emanuel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Wireless Operator\/Air Gunner, 25 OTU
Service number 1285616
Died 25 October 1941
Buried Newport Jewish Cemetery, Wales
Age 31<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Henry was born in 1910 in Newport, Wales to Samuel and Harriett n\u00e9e Samuel and had three sisters, Eileen, Nora, Patricia and a brother Albert. In 1911 the family was living at 24 Bryngwyn Rd, Newport where Samuel was listed as a clothier and pawnbroker. There are records of the Jacobs family living in Newport from the late 1860’s where they ran a pawnbrokers shop. Henry was a qualified solicitor and enlisted into the RAF at Penarth in 1940.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Henry was a wireless operator\/air gunner on Hampden P1234 which departed RAF Finningley on a daylight cross country training exercise. In poor visibility, the aircraft flew into barrage balloon cable, crashed and burst into flames. All crew on board were killed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pilot, James Welberne Atkin, RCAF J\/6028
W\/Op, Harry Hughes, 1053683
Pilot, Lawrence Mathew George McDonald, 401398<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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