Louis Cura

Lance Bombardier Luigi Alessandro ("Louis") Cura, was an English soldier of the British Army who died during the Second World War.
He was born on 6 February 1909, in Lambeth, the son of Italian-born caterer Joseph and Emily Cura, of London. In 1939, Cura was working as a clerk for the London Stock Exchange while also volunteering with the Air Raid Precautions Service.Ancestry.com. 1939 England and Wales Register [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2018.
Aged 33, Cura, serving with the Royal Artillery, died on 7 December 1942 when the German U-boat U-515 torpedoed and sunk the troopship SS Ceramic. All but one of the 656 on board the ship perished.
He has no known grave and is commemorated by the Brookwood Memorial.
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==References==
*Ancestry.co.uk.
*Cura, Louis, cwgc.org. Retrieved 1 June 2013.
*Cura, Louis, twgpp.org. Retrieved 1 June 2013.
Category:1909 births
Category:1942 deaths
Category:British military personnel
Category:British Army
Category:British people of Italian descent
Category:Burial Unknown
Category:Brookwood Memorial
Category:Lance Bombardiers