{"id":545,"date":"2019-10-25T07:52:27","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T07:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/?page_id=545"},"modified":"2021-05-04T13:39:46","modified_gmt":"2021-05-04T13:39:46","slug":"levene-david","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/raf\/levene-david\/","title":{"rendered":"Levene, David"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Navigator, 106 Squadron
Service number 184303
Died 23 September 1944
Buried Reichswald Forest War Cemetery, Germany
Age 36<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Headstone Inscription
‘LOVED AND MOURNED BY HIS WIFE, FAMILY AND ALL WHO KNEW HIM’<\/p>\n\n\n\n
David was born on 16 March 1908 to Russian born Hyman and Esther n\u00e9e Rosengard and had two sisters Minnie and Ida. Their father worked as a bookmaker in Hendon. David married Freda Wienke in 1937 in Hendon and he worked as a furniture manufacturer representative in Birmingham. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
David was the flight engineer on Lancaster ND868 which departed RAF Metheringham on a night operation to bomb the Dortmund-Ems Canal. The aircraft crashed near the town of Ibbenburen in Westphalia killing seven members of the crew with one survivor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nav, Gerald George Bryan, RCAF, J\/29589.
A\/G, John Frederick William Clarke, RCAF, R\/192643.
Pilot, James Isaac, 183398.
W\/Op, Richard Henry Julian, 1581666.
A\/G, Kenneth Alexander McLaughlin, RCAF, J\/89163.
A\/B, Henry Ian Shepherd, RCAF, J\/89184.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2nd Pilot, Sidney Henry Jones, 117959, survived. POW Stalag 9C and Luft III.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n