{"id":592,"date":"2019-10-25T07:52:28","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T07:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/?page_id=592"},"modified":"2021-05-05T07:34:40","modified_gmt":"2021-05-05T07:34:40","slug":"morris-solomon","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/raf\/morris-solomon\/","title":{"rendered":"Morris, Solomon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Air Gunner, 149 (East India) Squadron
Service number 1064705
Died 5 August 1941
Buried St. Martens-Voeren Churchyard, Belgium
Age 27<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Headstone Inscription
‘OUR PRECIOUS AND BELOVED SON AND BROTHER. DEEPLY MOURNED. M.H.D.S.R.I.P.’<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Solomon was born on 12 February 1914 in Prestwich, Lancashire to Polish born Abraham and Scottish born Bessie n\u00e9e Levy. It was a large family with eight children in total. Abraham died in 1936 and Bessie moved to live with Solomon’s sister Isabella’s family. In the 1939 Register they are living at 4 Edson Road, Manchester and Solomon was working as an upholsterer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Solomon was an air gunner on Wellington R1524 which departed RAF Mildenhall on a night operation to Mannheim. The aircraft was shot down and crashed at Fouron St Martin, Belgium. The crew are buried together in a collective grave. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sergeant Eric Alexander Raven Thompson
Sergeant Frederick Douglas Fowler
Sergeant Howard Hale (RCAF)
Sergeant Barrie Arthur John Richardson
Sergeant Vernon Scholey
Sergeant Solomon Morris<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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