David Ezra

Captain David Ezra was an officer of the British Army who died during the First World War.
He was born on 1 October 1884, at Calcutta, British India,תהלה לדוד :‏סדר העבודה לחג היובל של בית הכנסת מגן דוד כלכתה, p. 51. the son of Ezekiel and Ramah Ezra, both of the city. Ezra belonged to a prominent Calcutta Baghdadi family; his grandfather had founded the city's Magen David Synagogue.Parasuram, T.V. (1982), India's Jewish Heritage, p. 110. He received his education in England, at Cheltenham College and Cambridge University. At the time of the 1911 Census, Ezra was working as an art dealer while living with his parents and wife, Romanian-born Marie Blumenfield, at 3 Hyde Park Street, Paddington.
Ezra obtained a commission in July 1916, in the Special Reserve of Officers,The London Gazette (29666), p. 6970), 13 July 1916. Retrieved 16 August 2013. and went to the Western Front in February 1917. He died on 6 August 1918 while serving with the 192nd Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery.
He is buried in Beacon Cemetery, Sailly-Laurette.
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==References==
*Ancestry.co.uk.
*Ezra, David, cwgc.org. Retrieved 16 August 2013.
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