{"id":580,"date":"2019-10-25T07:52:28","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T07:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/?page_id=580"},"modified":"2021-05-05T07:05:49","modified_gmt":"2021-05-05T07:05:49","slug":"menell-david-victor","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/raf\/menell-david-victor\/","title":{"rendered":"Menell, David Victor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\">David Victor Menell<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Air Gunner, 630 Squadron<br>Service number 1804251<br>Died 31 March 1944<br>Buried Rheinberg War Cemetery, Germany<br>Age 21<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Headstone Inscription<br>&#8216;IN EVERLOVING MEMORY OF A DEAR SON AND BROTHER. MOTHER, &#8220;MOISHA&#8221; AND NATALIE&#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>David was the son of Alexander and Adelaide n\u00e9e Benjamin of London. David&#8217;s parents married in 1921 in Marylebone. David was born in 1923, followed by his sister Natalie in 1925. David&#8217;s parents divorced and remarried, Alexander in 1933 to Sofie Gutkin and Adelaide to Joseph Cohen in 1938. In 1939, David and Natalie were living with their mother and step father Joseph in Hove, Sussex.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>David was an air gunner on Lancaster ND337 which departed RAF East Kirkby on a night operation to N\u00fcrnberg. 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