Sergeant Reuben Ginsberg was an English airman of the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve who died during the Second World War.
He was born in 1920, in Bethal Green, the son of Russian-born parents Max, a cabinet maker at the time of the 1911 Census, and Rosa Ginsberg (née Zachin).
Ginsberg, a navigator in 1658 Heavy Conversion Unit, died on 26 November 1943, when his Handley Page Halifax (serial DT490) crashed near Pickering, Yorkshire during a training flight after it experienced engine difficulties and lost its starboard elevator, killing the seven crew.[1]
He is buried in Willesden Jewish Cemetery.
Notes[]
- ↑ Halifax DT490 near Pickering, yorkshire-aircraft.co.uk. Retrieved 12 August 2013.
References[]
- Ancestry.co.uk.
- Ginsberg, Reuben, cwgc.org. Retrieved 12 August 2013.