Leon David Goldseller
Born:
6 Adar 5656 (20 February 1896)
Died:
22 Nisan 5677 (14 April 1917)
Basic Information
Birth
Date of birth:
6 Adar 5656 (20 February 1896)
Death
Date of death:
22 Nisan 5677 (14 April 1917)
Cause of death:
Died of wounds - gunshot wound to the stomach
Burial place:
Mory Abbey Military Cemetery, Mory
Places
Addresses
Family home:
28 Belfield Road, Didsbury Manchester (1911)
Schools
Name:
Manchester Grammar School
Name:
Kanno Institute, Belgium
Name:
Salford Technical Institute
Name:
Manchester University
Other Organisations
Name:
Manchester University O.T.C.
Account of his death:
As the battalion signal officer on 14th April 1917 Leon led a patrol into No Man’s Land near Bullecourt. Once through the enemy wire they were detected by the Germans who fired upon them wounding Leon in the stomach. His men carried him to an unoccupied trench, organised a stretcher party and under machine gun and sniper fire evacuated him to a dressing station near Ecoust-St-Mein where he later died. He was buried the following day by a Jewish Chaplain. One of the men who rescued him from the battlefield, Private Edward Rust, was awarded a Military Medal for his actions.
From: http://www.ww1.manchester.ac.uk/roll-of-honour/leon-david-goldseller/
Family
Parents
Father: Ben Goldseller (male)
Mother: Bertha Goldseller (female)
Homefront
Military Record
Date discharged/death:
14 April 1917
Rank at discharge/death:
Lieutenant
Assignments
Regiment:
West Riding Regiment
Battalion/unit:
5th Battalion
Roll of Honour
L. D. GOLDSELLER, 15 April 1917
Commonwealth Graves Commission
Date of Death:
14 April 1917
Regiment / service:
Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment), 5th Bn.
Cemetery:
Mory Abbey Military Cemetery, Mory, France
Personal inscription:
INTO THY HANDS O LORD
Other Occupations
Type of employment:
Wholesale Cotton Fabrics
Organisation:
Family business
Organisation:
Pearsons Electrical Contractors
Gallery
Commemoration on family headstone in Duke Street Cemetery, Southport (image thanks to David Long of the IWM War Memorials Register)
Commemoration on family headstone in Duke Street Cemetery, Southport (image thanks to David Long of the IWM War Memorials Register)
