David Michaels

Driver David Michaels was an English soldier of the British Army who died during the First World War.
He was born in 1895, in Whitechapel, the son of Courland-born boot maker Hyman and Leah Michaels (née Welstand), of London. At the time of the 1911 census, the younger Michaels was working as a vest apprentice while living with his family at 42 Hogarth Houses, Batty Street.
Michaels died on 27 April 1915, of enteric fever, while serving with the 3rd Brigade Ammunition Column, Royal Field Artillery on the Western Front. His older brother, Simon, a private in the 1/5th Loyals, died in October 1918.
He is buried in Wimereux Military Cemetery.
==References==
*Ancestry.co.uk.
*Michaels, David, cwgc.org. Retrieved 7 March 2013. 
*Michaels, David, twgpp.org. Retrieved 7 March 2013.
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