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Flying Officer
Service number 143106
Died 23 May 1944
Buried Streatham Park Jewish Cemetery
Age 34<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Headstone Inscription
‘ONLY THE ACTIONS OF THE JUST, SMELL SWEET, AND BLOSSOM IN THEIR DUST’ <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Peter was born on 26 November 1909 in Whitechapel, London with the name Favel Goldberg. His parents were Abraham, from Bessarabia and Annie nee Appelbaum from Poland. Abraham became a naturalised British citizen in 1910. Peter was the middle child of five siblings and their father died when they were young in 1916.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Peter married Doris Rivy Webber in 1934 in Stepney and the 1939 Register shows them living in Weston-super-Mare where Peter worked as a school master. He was a government evacuation teacher employed by East Ham Council. Their son Keith was born in Buckinghamshire in 1943. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Peter’s death certificate states that he died at Princess Mary Hospital, Halton Camp in Wendover. He underwent a spinal fusion operation for lumbar spondylosis which caused a paralytic ileus (intestinal blockage) and his death. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n