Baron Mendes Da Costa

Private Baron Mendes Da Costa was an English soldier of the British Army who died during the First World War.
He was born in 1888, in Prestwich, the son of Dutch-born Michael, a synagogue superintendent in 1911, and Betsy Mendes Da Costa (née Harris), of Hull. At the time of the 1911 Census, he was working as a refreshment caterer while living with his family at 56 Elizabeth Street, Cheetham.
Mendes Da Costa died on 5 April 1918, on the Western Front, while serving with the 1st Battalion, The Essex Regiment.
He is buried in Hannescamps New Military Cemetery.
==References==
*Ancestry.co.uk.
*Mendes Da Costa, B, cwgc.org. Retrieved 1 August 2013.
Category:1888 births
Category:1918 deaths
Category:British military personnel
Category:British Army
Category:British people of Jewish descent
Category:British people of Dutch descent
Category:Buried in France
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