Michael Konyn

Rifleman Michael Konyn was a soldier of the British Army who died during the First World War.
He was born in Amsterdam, in the Netherlands, the son of Louis, a dock labourer on moving to England, and Betsy Konyn. Giving his place of birth as Middlesex, Konyn entered the army in 1906 and, at the time of the 1911 census, was stationed in Chakrata, India with the 4th Battalion, The King's Royal Rifle Corps.
Aged 28, Konyn died on 3 November 1914, during the First Battle of Ypres, while serving with the 2nd King's Royal Rifle Corps on the Western Front.
He has no known grave and is commemorated by the Menin Gate Memorial.
==References==
*Ancestry.co.uk.
*Konyn, Michael, cwgc.org. Retrieved 11 November 2012.
Category:Birth Date Unknown
Category:1914 deaths
Category:Dutch military personnel
Category:British military personnel
Category:British Army
Category:British people of Jewish descent
Category:British people of Dutch descent
Category:Burial Unknown
Category:Menin Gate Memorial
Category:Rifleman