Mathias Goldstein

Sergeant Mathias Aaron Goldstein was an English airman of the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve who died during the Second World War.
He was born on 9 April 1909, in Leeds, Yorkshire, the son of Russian-born parents Marks David, a manager in a department, and Annie Goldstein (née Goldberg). In 1939, Goldstein was working as an insurance agent.Ancestry.com. 1939 England and Wales Register [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2018.
Goldstein, serving in 158 Squadron, died on 8 November 1942, when his Handley Page Halifax (serial W1253), running low on fuel, crashed into the River Humber on its return flight from an operation against Genoa. Two fellow crewmembers, Flight Sergeant M.F. Carlin and Sergeant R.W. Stockton, RCAF, also died.Chorley, W.C. (1992), Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War: Aircraft and crew losses: 1942, p. 256. He had married earlier in the year, to Cecilia Wise.
He has no known grave and is commemorated by the Runnymede Memorial.
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==References==
*Ancestry.co.uk.
*Goldstein, Mathias Aaron, cwgc.org. Retrieved 1 January 2013.
Category:1909 births
Category:1942 deaths
Category:British military personnel
Category:Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Category:British people of Jewish descent
Category:British people of Russian descent
Category:Burial Unknown
Category:Runnymede Memorial
Category:Sergeants