Alexander Elmazor

Lieutenant Alexander Schlesinger, who served as Alexander Mosche Elmazor, was an officer of the British Army who died during the Second World War.
He was born in 1913, in Moscow, Russia, the son of David and Ola Schlesinger (née Traub), both of Lithuania.Alexander (Mosche) Schlesinger, krotman.co.il. Retrieved 13 April 2018. The Schlesinger family later settled in British Mandate Palestine. Under the name of Elmazor, he was commissioned on 26 February 1941 as a lieutenant in the Egypt Section of the Royal Army Medical Corps.The London Gazette (35163), p. 2799, 16 May 1941, thegazette.co.uk. Retrieved 13 April 2018.
Aged 27, Elmazor died on 25 April 1941, during the Battle of Greece, while serving with 24 Casualty Clearing Station. He had married, in 1939 in Tel Aviv, to Zoya Lvovich, of the Ukraine. They would have a daughter together, Nili.
He has no known grave and is commemorated by the Athens Memorial.
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==References==
*Elmazor, Alexander Mosche, cwgc.org. Retrieved 13 April 2018.
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