Simon Michaels

Private Simon Michaels was an English soldier of the British Army who died during the First World War.
He was born in 1893, in Whitechapel, the son of Courland-born boot maker Hyman and Leah Michaels (née Welstand), of London. At the time of the 1911 census, the younger Michaels was working as a house painter while living with his family at 42 Hogarth Houses, Batty Street.
Michaels died on 17 October 1918, of wounds received on the Western Front, while serving with the 1/5th Battalion, The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment. A younger brother David, a driver in the Royal Field Artillery, had died in 1915.
He is buried in Etaples Military Cemetery.
==References==
*Ancestry.co.uk.
*Michaels, Simon, cwgc.org. Retrieved 15 May 2013.
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