Neville Jonas Laski
Born:
7 Tevet 5651 (18 December 1890)
Died:
5 Nisan 5729 (24 March 1969)
Basic Information
Birth
Date of birth:
7 Tevet 5651 (18 December 1890)
Place of birth:
Manchester
Death
Date of death:
5 Nisan 5729 (24 March 1969)
Places
Addresses
York Street Cheetham Mancheser (1891)
255 Cheetham Hill Road Manchester (1901)
27 Smedley Lane Cheetham Manchester (1911)
Schools
Name:
Manchester Grammar School
Name:
Corpus Christi College, Oxford
Other Organisations
Name:
Board of Deputies of British Jews
Manchester Grammar School Roll of Honour
Manchester Grammar School Roll of Honour
Captain Duties
Neville wrote to the mother of William Bamford from the field in 1917 to tell her that her son was missing and presumed killed. You can read the letter in the Gallery opposite.
https://livesofthefirstworldwar.iwm.org.uk/story/8259
Remembering his Old School
Neville Laski donated money to found the Laski Cup for cricket at his old school Manchester Grammar. This was altered during WWI and was awarded to two boys who had worked in the National Service Scheme.
Biographical info taken from Manchester Grammar School's printed Biographical Register
Born 18 Dec 1890
Attended MGS: 1902-3
Corpus Christi College, Oxford
Beit Prize, MA Hon LLD, Liverpool.
Bencher Inner Temple, 1938.
QC 1930.
Recorder of Burnley, 1935-56.
Judge of Crown Court and Recorder of Liverpool from 1956.
Vice-President, Anglo-Jewish Association.
Member of the General Council of the Bar, 1950-56.
W1 6th Lancashire Fusiliers, Cap.
Family
Spouse
Phina Emily Laski (female)
Other surname / Maiden name:
Gaster
Place of marriage:
London, 1914
Children
Marghanita Laski (female)
Siblings
Parents
Mother: Sarah Frankenstein (female)
Father: Nathan Laski (male)
Homefront
Extract from the MGS school magazine, Ulula, featuring a vivid account by Neville Laski of his time at the Dardanelles in 1915
From the MGS Archive
Extract from the MGS school magazine, Ulula, featuring a vivid account by Neville Laski of his time at the Dardanelles in 1915
From the MGS Archive
Military Record
Date enlisted/conscripted:
1911
Rank at discharge/death:
Captain
Assignments
Regiment:
Lancashire Fusiliers
Battalion/unit:
6th Battalion
Posting:
Gallipoli from August 1915
Medals:
Victory
British War
1914 Star
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London Gazette, August 1914
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Medal index card
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British Armed Forces, First World War Disability & Retirement Payments For Officers & Nurses
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London Gazette, August 1914
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Medal index card
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British Armed Forces, First World War Disability & Retirement Payments For Officers & Nurses
Gallery
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Gestapo Invasion Arrest List 1940
After the fall of France in May 1940, the German Gestapo prepared for the invasion of Britain by compiling an arrest list of more than 2,300 names.
The list includes most major figures in the British political establishment, Winston Churchill and Neville Chamberlain.
There are also prominent cultural figures and refugees who had fled the continent ahead of the Nazis. Among those slated for arrest were Lady Astor, Noel Coward, Virginia Woolf, H. G. Wells, Sidney Reilly, Heinrich Mann, Chaim Weizmann, Edvard Benes, Aldous Huxley, and Charles de Gaulle.
This is one of the rare surviving copies, it is numbered 354 and stamped "Geheim" (Secret), and has a handwritten title "Gestapo Arrest List for England."
These records were prepared in advance of their anticipated invasion and occupation of mainland Britain. An occupation never came to pass, but these records give a unique insight into an alternative history that could have been.
- Find My Past
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Letter written by Neville to William Bamford's mother Ann to let her know her son is presumed killed in action
https://livesofthefirstworldwar.iwm.org.uk/lifestory/226528
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Second page of letter
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Gestapo Invasion Arrest List 1940
After the fall of France in May 1940, the German Gestapo prepared for the invasion of Britain by compiling an arrest list of more than 2,300 names.
The list includes most major figures in the British political establishment, Winston Churchill and Neville Chamberlain.
There are also prominent cultural figures and refugees who had fled the continent ahead of the Nazis. Among those slated for arrest were Lady Astor, Noel Coward, Virginia Woolf, H. G. Wells, Sidney Reilly, Heinrich Mann, Chaim Weizmann, Edvard Benes, Aldous Huxley, and Charles de Gaulle.
This is one of the rare surviving copies, it is numbered 354 and stamped "Geheim" (Secret), and has a handwritten title "Gestapo Arrest List for England."
These records were prepared in advance of their anticipated invasion and occupation of mainland Britain. An occupation never came to pass, but these records give a unique insight into an alternative history that could have been.
- Find My Past
2 of 3
Letter written by Neville to William Bamford's mother Ann to let her know her son is presumed killed in action
https://livesofthefirstworldwar.iwm.org.uk/lifestory/226528
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Second page of letter
