{"id":5446,"date":"2020-09-02T09:55:31","date_gmt":"2020-09-02T09:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/?page_id=5446"},"modified":"2021-05-04T13:38:09","modified_gmt":"2021-05-04T13:38:09","slug":"lesser-alan-aaron","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/raf\/lesser-alan-aaron\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesser, Alan Aaron"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Aircraftman 1st Class, 99 Squadron
Service number 1452851
Died 10 Mar 1943
Buried Ranchi War Cemetery, India
Age 21<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Headstone Inscription
‘TREASURED MEMORIES OF OUR DARLING ONLY SON AND BROTHER. MUM, DAD AND TILDA. R.I.P.’ <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Alan was born in 1921 in Hampstead to Alfred (Abraham Isaac) and Lena nee Block and had a younger sister Tilda. The 1939 Register states that the family lived at 84 Fortune Green Road, Hampstead and Alfred worked as a repairing tailor. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Alan joined the RAF in 1941. He worked as an armourer in 99 Squadron. On 10 March 1943 at RAF Digri, Alan was recorded in the Operational Record Book: ‘Whilst driving a tractor on the camp was killed by losing his way and falling into an excavation. The death was the subject of a Court of Enquiry’.<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n