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Mendel Isidore  Trachtenberg

Mendel Isidore Trachtenberg

Born:
25 Sivan 5642 (12 June 1882)
Died:
6 Heshvan 5679 (12 October 1918)

Basic Information

Unique reference:
TRA9675
Gender:
Male

Birth

Date of birth:
25 Sivan 5642 (12 June 1882)
Date arrived in Britain:
01 January 1914

Death

Date of death:
6 Heshvan 5679 (12 October 1918)
Died in combat?:
No
Place of death:
The Italian Hospital in Jerusalem
Cause of death:
Malaria
Burial place:
Jerusalem's War Cemetery

Places

Addresses

Parents' home :
7 Lauderdale Road (1911)
Home:
139 Fordwych Road Cricklewood (1918)

Schools

Name:
Latymer Upper School
Name:
St John's College, Cambridge
Year started:
~1900

Other Organisations

Name:
Tariff Commission
Date:
1906
Name:
Royal Statistical Society
Date:
1908
Name:
Operatic Class of the Trinity College of Music
Date:
1910

Latymer Upper Magazine - Mendel is remembered on page 15

http://www.latymer-upper.org/resource.aspx?id=5588

Family

Spouse

Jennie Pauline Luxemburg (female)
Other surname / Maiden name:
Trachtenberg
Place of marriage:
Hampstead
Country of marriage:
UK

Siblings

Henry Lyon Trachtenberg (male)
Reginald I Alexander Trachtenberg (male)
Rachel Love Trachtenberg

Parents

Father: Isidore Mendel Trachtenberg (male)
Mother: Eva Lyons (female)

Military Record

Military service:
Army
Military record no.:
J/2716
Date enlisted/conscripted:
1918
Date discharged/death:
12 October 1918
Rank at discharge/death:
Lance Corporal
Assignments
Regiment:
The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment)
Battalion/unit:
39th (Service) Battalion - Jewish Legion
Campaigns:
Middle East - Egyptian Expeditionary Force

Roll of Honour

M. TRACHTENBERG, 12 October 1918

British Jewry Book of Honour - Page 142

Commonwealth Graves Commission

Rank:
Lance Corporal
Date of Death:
12 October 1918
Age:
36 years old
Regiment / service:
Royal Fusiliers, 39th Bn.
Cemetery:
Jerusalem War Cemetery, Israel and Palestine (including Gaza)
Grave reference:
JS. 13.
Additional information:
Personal inscription:
B.A., F.S.S. SCHOLAR OF ST JOHN'S COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE BELOVED BY ALL

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