Gerald Levinstein

Lieutenant Gerald Edward Levinstein was an English officer of the British Army who died during the First World War.
He was born in 1887, in Chorlton, the third son of chemical manufacturer Ivan and his wife Hedwig Levinstein (née Abeles), of Germany and Austria, respectively. Levinstein studied at Rugby School and Pembroke College. On the outbreak of war, he was in the United States working for his father's company. After his return in September 1914, Levinstein enlisted in the public schools' battalion of the Royal Fusiliers as an other rank.Memorials of Rugbeians Who Fell in The Great War School. He was commissioned in April 1915, in the 26th Manchesters.
Levinstein went to the Western Front in mid-July, on attachment to the 17th Battalion, which was one of a number of battalions collectively known as the Manchester Pals. He died on 12 October 1916 in his battalion's attack on Flers, during the Somme Offensive, one of 213 casualties suffered by the 17th.Flers, 17thmanchesters.wordpress.com. Retrieved 23 February 2015. He had married Dorothy Vickers-Edwards in 1915.
He has no known grave and is commemorated by the Thiepval Memorial.
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==References==
*Ancestry.co.uk.
*Levinstein, Gerald Edward, cwgc.org. Retrieved 23 February 2015.
Category:1887 births
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