Service Details
Name:
 COHEN
Given Name:
 NATHAN
Initials:
 N
Service No:
 778742
Trade:
 Pilot
Rank:
 Sergeant
Other Casualties of this Rank
Regiment:
 Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
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Unit:
 235 Sqdn.
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Date of Death:
 1943-05-04
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Age:
 25
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, Beaufighter JL843, attacking a convoy of M 401, M 5202, D/S Taube and Boknafjord. Shot by flak from the flak battery based at Osbrestad and crashed into the North Sea. The body of Pilot Sgt Nathan Cohen was found washed ashore in Beach area no. 44 on Søgard Forstrand on the night of 22-23/6 by the German Wehrmacht. On the next day the Wehrmacht placed it in a coffin and took it to Lemvig where it was laid to rest in the cemetery on 26 June 1943
Additional
Information:
Son of Salomon and Sete Cohen, of Bellville, Cape Province, South Africa. Born Belleville, Cape Province in 1918. ***Jewish
Commemoration
Country:
 Denmark
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Cemetery:
 LEMVIG CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 Grave 719.

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