BORN HULL 1897. SON OF MOSES & ANN JACOBS. ONE OF HULL’S MANY JEWISH CASUALTIES IN WORLD WAR ONE. HISBROTHER & 7 SISTERS LIVED AT, 7, UPPER UNION STREET, HULL. (1911 CENSUS). SON OF A SLIPPER MAKER. EMPLOYED AS A TAILOR’S ASSISTANT. ENLISTED HULL. SERVED AS PRIVATE, 203474, 1/4TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 19/07/1917, AGED 20. HE IS BURIED AT HENINEL COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION, PAS DE CALAIS, FRANCE. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS FATHER, MISPELT AS MAURICE.
Photo from the British Jewry Book Of Honour Page 38
First name:
ABEY (ABRAHAM)
Regiment:
Military Number:
203474
Rank:
Private
Date Died
19/07/1917
Place died:
Heninel Communal Cemetery Extension, Pas de Calais, France
Age:
20
