Norman Raphael

Second Lieutenant Norman Henry Raphael was an English officer of the British Army who died during the First World War.
He was born in 1886, in Kensington, the eldest child of financier Walter John and Eugenie Rosina Raphael (née Silber). Raphael studied at Harrow School and Trinity College.Harrow Memorials of the Great War, vol 3, pp. 157-8, forgottenbooks.com. Retrieved 12 June 2015. By 1914, he was the managing director of the book publishers Max Goschen Ltd. His marriage to Marjorie Augusta Heinbockel, of Australia, would prove acrimonious. They became embroiled in a court case in 1915 relating to alleged fraud by Marjorie, which resulted in Marjorie suing her father-in-law for malicious prosecution.The Sydney Morning Herald: "Alleged Malicious Prosecution". 19 April 1917.
When war broke out, he enlisted in the public schools' battalion of the Royal Fusiliers.The Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record'. He obtained his commission in February 1915, in the 3rd Battalion, The Royal Warwickshire Regiment.The London Gazette (29163), p. 4757. 15 May 1915, thegazette.co.uk. Retrieved 12 June 2015.Raphael went to the Western Front in April 1916, serving with the regiment's 2nd Battalion until he was shot dead by a sniper on 8 June. 
He is buried in La Neuville Communal Cemetery, Corbie. 
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*Ancestry.co.uk.
*Raphael, Norman Henry, cwgc.org. Retrieved 12 June 2015.
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