{"id":5378,"date":"2020-09-09T14:09:32","date_gmt":"2020-09-09T14:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/?page_id=5378"},"modified":"2021-11-01T18:29:27","modified_gmt":"2021-11-01T18:29:27","slug":"joseph-alfred","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/raf\/joseph-alfred\/","title":{"rendered":"Joseph, Alfred"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Flight Sergeant, Aden CF
Service number 1396876
Died 11 Jul 1945
Buried Djibouti New European Cemetery, East Africa
Age 22<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Alfred was born in July 1923 in Holborn, London to David and Rachel nee Camina and he had an older brother Michael. Their father worked as a cigarette distributor and in 1939 the family lived with Rachel’s family in Rhonda Grove, Stepney. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Alfred enlisted in 1940 and trained as a navigator. On 11 July 1945 he was the navigator on Hudson AM950 which crashed on landing at Djibouti. The aircraft caught fire killing Alfred and Pilot, Henry Brian James, 12945 and W\/Op, Ernest Lowndes, 2214086. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n