{"id":5448,"date":"2020-09-09T15:40:29","date_gmt":"2020-09-09T15:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/?page_id=5448"},"modified":"2021-10-03T08:57:53","modified_gmt":"2021-10-03T08:57:53","slug":"lesser-samuel","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/raf\/lesser-samuel\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesser, Samuel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\">Samuel Lesser<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Leading Aircraftman<br>Service number 924286<br>Died 1 Aug 1944<br>Buried Willesden Jewish Cemetery<br>Age 28<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Headstone Inscription<br>&#8220;FAREWELL. WITH HONOUR, PEACE AND LOVE BE THY DEAR MEMORY BLEST&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-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>Samuel was born on 8 January 1916 in Reading, Berkshire to Polish born parents David and Millie nee Steinbock and was the youngest of nine children. Their father worked as a tailor and the family became naturalised British citizens in 1906.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1939 the family were living at 51 Lorne Street, Reading and Samuel was working as an assistant manager of a tailors which was providing military uniforms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Samuel enlisted as a RAF reservist in 1940 and in 1943 he married Frances Koopman and they moved to Enfield, Middlesex. He died the following year in Brompton Hospital Sanitorium in Surrey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <\/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 size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"777\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Samuel-Lesser-700x777.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10253\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Samuel-Lesser-700x777.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Samuel-Lesser-250x278.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Samuel-Lesser-768x853.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Samuel-Lesser-1384x1536.jpg 1384w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Samuel-Lesser-120x133.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Samuel-Lesser.jpg 1760w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><figcaption>Courtesy Roni Ingram<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"860\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Lesser-full-700x860.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Lesser-full-700x860.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Lesser-full-250x307.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Lesser-full-768x943.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Lesser-full-1251x1536.jpg 1251w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Lesser-full-1668x2048.jpg 1668w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Lesser-full-120x147.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Lesser-full.jpg 1755w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><figcaption>\u00a9 Cathie Hewitt<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"860\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/1939-sam-lesser-700x860.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10866\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/1939-sam-lesser-700x860.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/1939-sam-lesser-250x307.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/1939-sam-lesser-768x943.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/1939-sam-lesser-1250x1536.jpg 1250w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/1939-sam-lesser-1667x2048.jpg 1667w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/1939-sam-lesser-120x147.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Samuel Lesser Leading AircraftmanService number 924286Died 1 Aug 1944Buried Willesden Jewish CemeteryAge 28 Headstone Inscription&#8220;FAREWELL. 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