{"id":731,"date":"2019-10-25T07:52:30","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T07:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/?page_id=731"},"modified":"2021-05-05T14:33:39","modified_gmt":"2021-05-05T14:33:39","slug":"solomons-louis-john","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/raf\/solomons-louis-john\/","title":{"rendered":"Solomons, Louis John"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\">Louis John Solomons<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Air Bomber, 149 (East India) Squadron<br>Service number 748642<br>Died 17 November 1943<br>Buried Willesden Liberal Jewish Cemetery<br>Age 24<\/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>Louis served under the name SOMERS. He was born on 18 June 1919 in Edmonton, Middlesex to Nathaniel and Esther n\u00e9e Levy. Louis had two older sisters, Leila who was a publicity journalist and married Sidney Pierce, and Sarah a store buyer who married Frederick Sanders. In 1939, the family were living at 56 Carlton Road, Islington and Nathan worked as a taxi driver. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Louis was an air bomber on Stirling MZ260 which departed RAF Lakenheath on a training exercise. 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