{"id":5236,"date":"2020-09-09T12:11:04","date_gmt":"2020-09-09T12:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/?page_id=5236"},"modified":"2021-06-26T12:50:34","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T12:50:34","slug":"finklestone-sayliss-raphael","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/raf\/finklestone-sayliss-raphael\/","title":{"rendered":"Finklestone-Sayliss, Raphael"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\">Raphael Finklestone-Sayliss<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Sergeant, 500 Squadron<br>Service number 1067676<br>Died 17 Sep 1942<br>Commemorated on Runnymede Memorial<br>Age 27 <\/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>Raphael (known as Ralph) was born in 1913 in Ecclesall Bierlow, Yorkshire West Riding to Saul, a naturalised British citizen from Ponevezh in Lithuania, and Leah Cohen who was born in Leeds. Ralph was the youngest of seven children. The family lived in Sheffield where Saul was the headmaster of a Hebrew school. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ralph attended the Central School, Leopold Street in Sheffield and on leaving school he joined Cantor&#8217;s Furniture Store in Doncaster where he worked as the manager. Ralph&#8217;s nephew recalls: &#8216;<em>I remember him as well as any little boy can now 90 years old, he came on holiday with us in the 1930&#8217;s and was with us sat on the cellar steps during an air raid at the beginning of the war before he had joined up.&#8217;  <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On 17 September 1942 the four crew members of Hudson AM587 died when the aircraft was shot down at 15.37 by Lt K Necesany of 13.\/KG40 over the Bay of Biscay in position PLQ 14W\/8933. Two crew were seen in the water but were unable to be rescued. All the crew are commemorated on Runnymede Memorial. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pilot, F\/S Dennis Bensted Smith, 778472 <br>Observer, Sgt Raphael Finklestone-Sayliss <br>W\/Op, Sgt Archibald Young, 1068149 <br>W\/Op, Sgt Robert James Wilson, 1025731<\/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\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"1026\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Finklestone-2-700x1026.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8739\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Finklestone-2-700x1026.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Finklestone-2-250x366.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Finklestone-2-768x1125.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Finklestone-2-120x176.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Finklestone-2.jpg 804w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Finklestone-1-700x1080.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8740\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Finklestone-1-700x1080.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Finklestone-1-250x386.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Finklestone-1-120x185.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Finklestone-1.jpg 753w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"1279\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Naturalisation-finklestone-700x1279.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7851\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Naturalisation-finklestone-700x1279.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Naturalisation-finklestone-250x457.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Naturalisation-finklestone-768x1404.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Naturalisation-finklestone-120x219.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Raphael Finklestone-Sayliss Sergeant, 500 SquadronService number 1067676Died 17 Sep 1942Commemorated on Runnymede MemorialAge 27 Raphael (known as Ralph) was born in 1913 in Ecclesall Bierlow, Yorkshire West Riding to Saul, a naturalised British citizen from Ponevezh in Lithuania, and Leah Cohen who was born in Leeds. 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