A biography of the military career of James Robert Mordecai who served in 2nd/5th Essex Regiment
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Private James Robert Mordecai

Serving Soldiers' Biographies

James Robert Mordecai was born in 1917, the only child of parents Herbert Herman Mordecai - who served with the East Yorkshire Regiment in WW1 and was killed in action in France on the 10th September 1918 - and Miss E Brown.

Married Irene Mitchell 1939.

Private 6013715 2nd/5th Essex Regiment.

Died Wednesday 8th September 1943 aged 26.

Commemorated on Cassino Memorial Italy panel 8.

Cassino Memorial, Italy
Photoraph Source: Commonwealth War Graves Commission