Corporal Harold Simmonds, Royal Air Force.
Harold was the son of Hyman and Sarah Simmonds.  Harold was a taxi driver and he married Lily in 1923.  He enlisted on 21 July 1939, and in 1943 was serving as a Wireless Operator attached to RAF Bournemouth (part of Flying Training Command).  On 23 May 1943,  having returned from an operation, Harold and other crew members checked into the Hotel Metropole, Bournemouth, where they were billeted.  Shortly afterwards, the hotel suffered a direct hit from an enemy bomb.  Harold was aged 45 years and was buried in East Ham Jewish Cemetery.  Harold was the uncle of Alfred Sandow (see above) who had died in Service less than three months earlier.