Cyril Issac Levine (LEV5854)

Basic Information

Unique reference:

LEV5854

Gender:

Male

Birth

Date of birth:

11 Elul 5656 (20 August 1896)

Place of birth:

Norwich, Norfolk, England

Death

Date of death:

6 Sivan 5677 (27 May 1917)

Died in combat?:

Place of death:

County of Middlesex War Hospital, Napsbury

Cause of death:

Acute mania

Burial place:

Earlham Road Cemetery, Norwich, Norfolk

Places

Addresses

Parent's home:

3 Park Road Suffolk Park, Cromer, Norfolk (16 April 1918)

Cyril Levine was born in 1898, in Norwich, the son of Louis and Barbara Levine (née Hush), of Norfolk and North Shields, respectively. His father was a Pawnbroker and Antique dealer.

Cyril enlisted as a Private in the 112th Company, Machine Gun Corps in 1916 and he served with the Field Force for eight months before being admitted to Beaufort War Hospital in Bristol. He was transferred to the County of Middlesex War Hospital at Napsbury on the 8 May 1917 with acute mania, and died 19 days later on 27 May. Acute mania was used as a term for death when the patient had been hospitalised in a mental institution.

The Commonwealth War Grave headstones of Cyril Isaac Levine and his brother Myer Joseph Levine flank a larger private stone commemorating them. The epitaph reads "Crowned with the sunshine of immortal youth." The graves can be found in the Jewish burial ground of Earlham Road cemetery, Norwich.

Researched for 'We Were There Too' by Dr Ronnie Fraser

Gallery

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The entry in the British Jewish Book of Honour
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The gravestones for Cyril and Myer Levine
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The family gravestone
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Commonwealth War Graves stone

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