Martin Amson

Corporal Martin Abrahmsohn, who used the nom de guerre Martin Leslie Amson, was a German-born soldier of the British Army who died during the Second World War.
He was born in 1923, at Hamburg, the son of Max Hermann and Sura Salomea Abrahamsohn (née Dobroschitzky-Posnanski), of Hamburg and Przedbórz, respectively.Martin Leslie Amson, geni.com. Retrieved 14 July 2016. As a child, he studied at the Talmud Thora Schule. He reached England in 1939, and went to work as a labourer.Leighton-Langer, Peter (2006), The King's Own Loyal Enemy Aliens: German and Austrian Refugees in Britain's Armed Forces, 1939-45, p. 240-1. His father survived the Holocaust, becoming a British citizen in 1947, but his mother was deported to Łódź Ghetto and murdered in 1941.Sura Abrahamsohn, yvng.yadvashem.org. Retrieved 14 July 2016.
As Amson, he enlisted in 1943 and joined the 4th Royal Tank Regiment. With his regiment, Amson landed at Normandy on D-Day+2 in June 1944. After a time at the interpreters' college in Brussels, Amson joined 6th Airborne Division in December. He crossed the Rhine during Operation 'Varsity' and was presumed killed on 24 March 1945. Amson had married, in 1943, to Gerda Braunschweig. 
He has no known grave and is commemorated by the Groesbeek Memorial.
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==References==
*Amson, Martin Leslie, cwgc.org. Retrieved 14 July 2016.
Category:1923 births
Category:German military personnel
Category:British military personnel
Category:British Army
Category:British people of Jewish descent
Category:British people of German descent
Category:Burial Unknown
Category:Groesbeek Memorial
Category:Corporals