Stephen Cohen

Captain Stephen Behrens Cohen was an English officer of the British Army who died during the Second World War.
He was born on 28 February 1911, in Paddington, the son of Sir Herbert Cohen, 2nd Baronet, and Hannah Mildred Behrens.Cohen, Hannah Floretta (1947), Let Stephen speak: a memoir of Captain Stephen Behrens Cohen, p. 11. Educated at Eton and King's College, Cohen was called to the bar in 1934. He practiced law at Lincoln's Inn, and at the last general election before the war was selected as the Conservative candidate for the Romford Division, Essex.The Times (49469), p. 6: "Personal Tribute Captain S.B. Cohen". 13 February 1943. His older brother, Nigel, died in 1931 when his de Havilland Moth crashed at Lympne, Kent.DH60 Moth (G-AAKR) crash, Lympne, September 1931, sussexhistoryforum.co.uk. Retrieved 27 August 2015.
Cohen was commissioned on 8 July 1939, in the 4th Battalion, The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment.The London Gazette (34644), p. 4754. 11 July 1939, thegazette.co.uk. Retrieved 27 August 2015. After transferring to the 6th Battalion, Cohen was engaged in staff duties before being sent to India on attachment to the Mazhbi and Ramdasia Battalion, 11th Sikh Regiment. While assigned to the Upper Sind Force, Cohen suffered a recurrence of malaria. He succumbed to the disease on 10 February 1943, at the base hospital in Karachi.Cohen, Hannah Floretta (1947),Let Stephen speak: a memoir of Captain Stephen Behrens Cohen, p. 142.
He is buried in Karachi War Cemetery. His aunt, Hannah Cohen, published 'Let Steven Speak: A Memoir of Captain Stephen Behrens Cohen' in 1947. She also founded a studentship at King's College in 1949 for arts graduates from the Commonwealth and Israel. As a complement to the studentship, a 'Travel Exhibition' was to be awarded to Commonwealth and Israeli students at the college to enable them to travel abroad.Cambridge University Calendar 1973–74, p. 424.
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*Cohen, Stephen Behrens, cwgc.org. Retrieved 27 August 2015.
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