{"id":5698,"date":"2020-09-10T09:08:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-10T09:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/?page_id=5698"},"modified":"2022-02-02T20:56:04","modified_gmt":"2022-02-02T20:56:04","slug":"sonenthal-alfred","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/raf\/sonenthal-alfred\/","title":{"rendered":"Sonenthal, Alfred"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Sergeant, 131 OTU
Service number 1814140
Died 26 Nov 1944
Buried Enfield (Adath Yisroel) Cemetery
Age 29<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Headstone Inscription
‘MAY HIS DEAR SOUL REST IN PEACE’<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Alfred was born on 4 November 1915 in London to Russian born Woolf and Leah nee Warshafsky and he had two sisters Rebecca and Lotte. Their father worked as a tailor machinist and in 1939 Alfred was working as a hairdressers assistant. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Alfred was a wireless operator on Catalina JX252 which departed RAF Castle Archdale, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland on a training exercise. The aircraft was was scheduled to land on the Lough Erne but due to a visibility reduced by foggy conditions, the pilot misjudged Lake Navar with the Lough Erne. On approach, the seaplane hit a mountain and disintegrated. All nine crew members were killed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nav, Sgt John Rew
Pilot, F\/Sgt Noel George Edward Ladbrook
Nav, Sgt Bernard Alfred Rosentreter.
Sgt Alfred Sonenthal
W\/O Reginald William Shallis
Nav, Sgt David Henry Pidgeon
A\/G, Sgt Kenneth Percy West
A\/G, Sgt Edmond Thomas Crow
F\/E, Sgt James Pringle <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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