Lawrence Rosenbaum

Lieutenant Lawrence Braham Rosenbaum was a Welsh officer of the British Army who died during the First World War.
He was born in Bedwelty, the son of Polish-born pawnbroker Solomon and Brinetta Rosenbaum.Ancestry.co.uk. His father, who died in 1910, had been a founder and ex-president of the Montefiore Centenary Synagogue at Tredegar.The Cardiff Times, p. 9: "Mr S. Rosenbaum, Tredegar". 13 August 1910. At the time of the 1911 Census, Rosenbaum was working as an assistant to the pawnbrokers while living with his family at 55 Church Street, Tredegar.
Rosenbaum enlisted in September 1914, in the 3rd Battalion, The Monmouthshire Regiment, advancing through the ranks to eventually became a serjeant.Monmouth Guardian and Bargoed and Caerphilly Observer, p. 2: "Tredegar". 31 March 1916.Monmouth Guardian and Bargoed and Caerphilly Observer, p. 1: "Toll of the War". 26 April 1918.The London Gazette (29449), p. 993, thegazette.co.uk. 24 January 1916. Retrieved 26 October 2016. He went to the Western Front in February 1915. With his battalion, he fought in the Battle of Frezenberg Ridge, in which the Monmouths suffered heavy casualties. Rosenbaum was himself wounded in the thigh and was admitted to Oxford Hospital. On 8 January 1916, he was commissioned as a second lieutenant, and later, with the regiment's 1/2nd Battalion, returned to the front. He was wounded in the head on 13 April 1918, and died, aged 25, in hospital on the 17th.
He is buried in Bandaghem Military Cemetery, Haringhe.
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==References==
*Ancestry.co.uk.
*Rosenbaum, Lawrence Braham, cwgc.org. Retrieved 26 October 2016.
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