Mark Hurwitz

Private Mark Hurwitz was an English soldier of the British Army who died during the First World War.
He was born in Walthamstow, the son of Lithuanian-Russian parents Isaac, a lace and curtain dealer, and Fanny Hurwitz. At the time of the 1911 census, the younger Hurwitz was assisting his father and living with his family at 7 Woolmer Road, Nottingham.
Hurwitz died on 17 November 1915, when the hospital ship HMHS Anglia, evacuating wounded soldiers to Dover, struck a mine laid by the German U-boat UC-5 in the English Channel, sinking with the loss of 134 people. He had arrived on the Western Front in June, with the 1/7th Battalion, The Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment).WWI Service Records, 1914-1920.
He has no known grave and is commemorated by the Hollybrook Memorial.
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==References==
*Hurwitz, Mark, cwgc.org. Retrieved 14 December 2012.
Category:Birth Date Unknown
Category:1915 deaths
Category:British military personnel
Category:British people of Jewish descent
Category:British people of Lithuanian descent
Category:British people of Russian descent
Category:British Army
Category:Burial Unknown
Category:Hollybrook Memorial
Category:Privates