Basic Information
Birth
Death
Morris in 1915
Item donated to Manchester Archives by son Samuel - reads 'Dad 1915' on the reverse
Morris in 1915
Item donated to Manchester Archives by son Samuel - reads 'Dad 1915' on the reverse
Places
Addresses
42 Cheetham Hill Road Cheetham, Manchester (1911)
Synagogues
Name:
Manchester New Synagogue
Morris' father Samuel Oleesky, born in Russia in 1860 and arriving in Manchester with his parents in 1869, was a kosher butcher, and owned a shop on Cheetham Hill Road.
At the time there were no kosher butchers in South Manchester, so Morris used to deliver on horse and cart to the Jewish families who had moved there to the Palatine Road area.
The butchers shop remained in the family until the First World War, when Morris went into the army in 1915 and could no longer run it.
Family
Spouse
Other surname / Maiden name:
Cohen
Children
Siblings
Parents
Mother: Rachel Oleesky (female)
Father: Samuel Oleesky (male)
Military Record
Military record no.:
PS/7149 and T/6770
Date enlisted/conscripted:
11 May 1915
Date discharged/death:
04 March 1919
Rank at discharge/death:
Private
Assignments
Battalion/unit:
18th Battalion
Battalion/unit:
3rd and 8th
Campaigns:
This regiment was decimated at the Somme, but Morris survived and went on to join the Fusiliers
Battalion/unit:
7th Battalion
Gallery
