{"id":5158,"date":"2020-08-01T12:53:53","date_gmt":"2020-08-01T12:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/?page_id=5158"},"modified":"2022-07-09T12:16:50","modified_gmt":"2022-07-09T12:16:50","slug":"cohen-henry","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/raf\/cohen-henry\/","title":{"rendered":"Cohen, Henry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Sergeant, 215 Squadron
Service number: 1125924
Died 27 Feb 1944
Buried Chittagong War Cemetery, Bangladesh
Age 19<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Headstone Inscription
‘DEARLY BELOVED ELDEST SON OF MAY COHEN, BROTHER OF ANNA AND CYRIL’ <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Henry was born in 1925 in Glasgow the son of Gabriel and May Cohen. His father worked as a master furrier and died of carcinoma of the lungs when Henry was five years old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Henry was on board Wellington HF538 which crashed in Jessore, India killing all crew. His death certificate states that he died of multiple injuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A letter written by the RCAF to the Canadian pilot Robert McGee’s family states that the aircraft crashed at 03.42 80 miles NE of Calcutta and 2 miles N of Jessore, Bengal.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n