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| Keywords: Service - Medals card for Isaac Benkovitch.jpg In the fascinating transcript attached to this item Helen Lawrence recalls her aunt ™s husband Max Marchofsky and her own father Isaac Benkovitch later Benwick Max ™s wife had died in childbirth in 1915 leaving six young children Max served as a Private with the Middlesex Regiment and amid the celebrations on Armistice Day in 1918 a telegram arrived announcing his death six days earlier leaving six orphaned children some of whom were brought up by Helen ™s mother Helen ™s father Isaac was a devout man passionate about music who served with the Prince of Wales Own West Yorkshire Light Infantry amid the horrors of the trenches in France and after the war with the occupying army in Cologne where he was able to attend the Rhine Opera House Isaac was eager to pass on to Helen his strong conviction that there should be no more war Contributed via Age Exchange http //www age-exchange org uk as part of the Children of the Great War project http //www childrenofthegreatwar org uk at a collection day at RAF Hendon UK exhibition history object history object type Europeana 1914-1918 Copyright information Europeana 1914-1918 PD-own upload Europeana claims no rights in its digitisation in accordance with its http //pro europeana eu/publications/the-europeana-public-domain-charter Public Domain charter Europeana 1914-1918 project place of creation place of discovery http //www europeana1914-1918 eu/en/contributions/16674 Service / Medals card for Isaac Benkovitch Uploaded with GWToolset Service / Medals card for Isaac Benkovitch http //www europeana1914-1918 eu/attachments/177333/16674 177333 full jpg World War I Europeana 1914-1918 batch upload needs checking Interallied Victory Medal United Kingdom Scanned with Canon CanoScan LiDE 700F | ||||
