{"id":5500,"date":"2020-09-09T16:35:47","date_gmt":"2020-09-09T16:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/?page_id=5500"},"modified":"2021-04-21T12:59:52","modified_gmt":"2021-04-21T12:59:52","slug":"marks-samuel-gemmell","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/raf\/marks-samuel-gemmell\/","title":{"rendered":"Marks, Samuel Gemmell"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\">Samuel Gemmell Marks<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Leading Aircraftman, 326 Maintenance Unit<br>Service number 623973<br>Died 19 Aug 1943<br>Buried Delhi War Cemetery, India<br>Age 22 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Headstone Inscription<br>&#8216;HIS HEAVENLY HOME IS BRIGHT AND FAIR, NO PAIN, NO SORROW ENTERS THERE&#8217; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns has-2-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 in 1921 in Greenock, Renfrewshire to Scottish born parents Michael and Amy nee Gemmell and had a sister Elizabeth and a brother Michael. Samuel&#8217;s grandparents emigrated from Greece. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Samuel enlisted in the RAF in 1938 as an aircraft-hand. His death record states that he was a LAC in 326 M.U. and he died in the Civil Military Hospital, Asansol, Bengal of burns received as a result of a fire. <\/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=\"980\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Marks-1-700x980.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11748\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Marks-1-700x980.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Marks-1-250x350.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Marks-1-768x1075.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Marks-1-1097x1536.jpg 1097w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Marks-1-1463x2048.jpg 1463w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Marks-1-120x168.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Marks-1-scaled.jpg 1829w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><figcaption>Photo provided by The War Graves Photographic Project \u00a92021<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"177\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Sam-Marks-death-700x177.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Sam-Marks-death-700x177.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Sam-Marks-death-250x63.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Sam-Marks-death-768x194.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Sam-Marks-death-120x30.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Marks-2-700x525.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11752\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Marks-2-700x525.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Marks-2-250x188.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Marks-2-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Marks-2-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Marks-2-120x90.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Marks-2.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><figcaption>Delhi War Cemetery, India. 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