Conway Alfred Dvr aka Cohen Abraham T/171865 - Revision history

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 |Age=40 at the time of his death.
 |Date of birth=7/2/1918 in Newcastle.  Birth registered Q1 1918, Mother's maiden surname Leafman.
-|Unit=Enlisted RASC 4/4/1940, Posted 12 Driver Training Unit, Posted 18 Reserve Mechanical Transport Company 1/6/1940, Posted 12 Reserve Mech Tpt Coy 27/7/1940.  Served Iceland. Posted No 2 Holding Unit 16/3/1942, Posted 12 Reserve Mech Tpt Coy 18/6/1942. Attached 70th Infantry Brigade 22/6/1942. Attached 547 Gen Tpt Coy 14/8/1942. Posted 2 Mobilisation Centre - Depot Coy 8/11/1942. Posted Heavy AA Regt 11/11/1942. Posted 1507 Heavy AA Regt Section 13/2/1943. Posted 1504 Heavy AA Troop Sec 27/3/1943. Posted No 1 Holding Bn 22/4/1943. Posted 197 Armoured Bde 28/4/1943. Posted 648 Armoured Div Tpt 15/10/1943. Served Europe.  Posted 44 Tpt Column 28/6/1944. Posted 104 Coy (Army Tpt) 18/9/1944. Attached 53 RHU 7/5/1945. Attached 104 Coy (Army Tpt) 15/6/1945. Posted 69 Inf Bde Tpt Coy 27/1/1946. Posted 504 Bde 8/2/1946. Released to Reserve 11/8/1946. Discharged from liability to serve 30/6/1959.
+|Unit=Enlisted RASC 4/4/1940, Posted 12 Driver Training Unit, Posted 18 Reserve Mechanical Transport Company 1/6/1940, Posted 12 Reserve Mech Tpt Coy 27/7/1940.  Served Iceland. Posted No 2 Holding Unit 16/3/1942, Posted 12 Reserve Mech Tpt Coy 18/6/1942. Attached 70th Infantry Brigade 22/6/1942. Attached 547 Gen Tpt Coy 14/8/1942. Posted 2 Mobilisation Centre - Depot Coy 8/11/1942. Posted Heavy AA Regt 11/11/1942. Posted 1507 Heavy AA Regt Section 13/2/1943. Posted 1504 Heavy AA Troop Sec 27/3/1943. Posted No 1 Holding Bn 22/4/1943. Posted 197 Armoured Bde 28/4/1943. Posted 648 Armoured Div Tpt 15/10/1943. Served Europe.  Posted 44 Tpt Column 28/6/1944. Posted 104 Coy (Army Tpt) 18/9/1944. Attached 53 RHU 7/5/1945. Attached 104 Coy (Army Tpt) 15/6/1945. Posted 69 Inf Bde Tpt Coy 27/1/1946. Posted 504 Bde 8/2/1946. Released to Reserve 11/8/1946. Discharged from liability to serve 30/6/1959 (by which time he was already deceased, according to genealogical research).
 |Company/Battery=70 Bde Hq
 |Platoon or other sub-unit=RASC Brigade Transport Company.

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 Without a rabbi, with only two prayer shawls and one skullcap, the new congregation's services went well. Alfred Conway, a cantor from Leeds, sang the Kol Nidre prayer. Chaplain Hood gave a speech and talked about British soccer and long jump. The audience was not impressed. After the full day of fasting and services, followed by a photographing session, the hungry people gathered for a meal at a nearby Reykjavík hotel, and the first Jewish congregation in Iceland was officially founded".
-A photograph of a Jewish event (Rosh Hashanah or Jewish New Year) in Iceland is set out below - related to the presence of a Canadian soldier, later killed in the Fieppe Raid.  Cantor Conway (Cohen) is seated on the left.  Thanks are due to Howard Conway for spotting this image in the Canadian Jewish News and forwarding it to the author.  The photograoh appeared in the Canadian Jewish News of September 2015.
+A photograph of a Jewish event (Rosh Hashanah or Jewish New Year) in Iceland is set out below - related to the presence of a Canadian soldier, later killed in the Dieppe Raid.  Cantor Conway (Cohen) is seated on the left.  Thanks are due to Howard Conway for spotting this image in the Canadian Jewish News and forwarding it to the author.  The photograph appeared in the Canadian Jewish News of September 2015.
 [[File:Rosh_Hashanah_-_Iceland.jpg|800px|thumb|centre|Group photo after the Rosh Hashanah service in Reykjavik]]

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 |Source table=70BG
 |Image Name=Cantor_Conway.jpg
-|Image Title=Cantor Conway after the Rosh Hashanah service in Reykjavik.
+|Image Title=Cantor Conway after the Rosh Hashanah service in [[Reykjavik]].
 }}

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 |Surname and forenames=Conway Alfred aka Cohen Abraham
 |Army number=T/171865
-|Rank=Dvr
+|Rank=Driver
-|Age=0
+|Age=40 at the time of his death.
-|Date of birth=7/2/1918 in Newcastle.
+|Date of birth=7/2/1918 in Newcastle.  Birth registered Q1 1918, Mother's maiden surname Leafman.
-|Unit=Enlisted RASC 4/4/1940, Posted 12 Driver Training Unit, Posted 18 Reserve Mechanical Transport Company 1/6/1940, Posted 12 Reserve Mech Tpt Coy 27/7/1940.  Served Iceland. Posted No 2 Holding Unit 16/3/1942, Posted 12 Reserve Mech Tpt Coy 18/6/1942. Attached 70th Infantry Brigade 22/6/1942. Attached 547 Gen Tpt Coy 14/8/1942. Posted 2 Mobilisation Centre - Depot Coy 8/11/1942. Posted Heavy AA Regt 11/11/1942. Posted 1507 Heavy AA Regt Section 13/2/1943. Posted 1504 Heavy AA Troop Sec 27/3/1943. Posted No 1 Holding Bn 22/4/1943. Posted 197 Armoured Bde 28/4/1943. Posted 648 Armoured Div Tpt 15/10/1943. Posted 44 Tpt Column 28/6/1944. Posted 104 Coy (Army Tpt) 18/9/1944. Attached 53 RHU 7/5/1945. Attached 104 Coy (Army Tpt) 15/6/1945. Posted 69 Inf Bde Tpt Coy 27/1/1946. Posted 504 Bde 8/2/1946. Released to Reserve 11/8/1946. Discharged from liability to serve 30/6/1959.
+|Unit=Enlisted RASC 4/4/1940, Posted 12 Driver Training Unit, Posted 18 Reserve Mechanical Transport Company 1/6/1940, Posted 12 Reserve Mech Tpt Coy 27/7/1940.  Served Iceland. Posted No 2 Holding Unit 16/3/1942, Posted 12 Reserve Mech Tpt Coy 18/6/1942. Attached 70th Infantry Brigade 22/6/1942. Attached 547 Gen Tpt Coy 14/8/1942. Posted 2 Mobilisation Centre - Depot Coy 8/11/1942. Posted Heavy AA Regt 11/11/1942. Posted 1507 Heavy AA Regt Section 13/2/1943. Posted 1504 Heavy AA Troop Sec 27/3/1943. Posted No 1 Holding Bn 22/4/1943. Posted 197 Armoured Bde 28/4/1943. Posted 648 Armoured Div Tpt 15/10/1943. Served Europe.  Posted 44 Tpt Column 28/6/1944. Posted 104 Coy (Army Tpt) 18/9/1944. Attached 53 RHU 7/5/1945. Attached 104 Coy (Army Tpt) 15/6/1945. Posted 69 Inf Bde Tpt Coy 27/1/1946. Posted 504 Bde 8/2/1946. Released to Reserve 11/8/1946. Discharged from liability to serve 30/6/1959.
 |Company/Battery=70 Bde Hq
 |Platoon or other sub-unit=RASC Brigade Transport Company.
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 |Wounded=Yes - in Holland (some souces say Germany) in 1944, full details not known.
 |Died/Killed in action=Died 12/1/1959 from Rheumatic Fever.
-|Home address=No further family information as yet.
+|Home address=Marriage to Hannah Kaufman 9/6/1940 Leeds.  (Spouse to be confirmed - name not uncommon).
 |Source table=70BG
 |Image Name=Cantor_Conway.jpg

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 |Rank=Dvr
 |Age=0
-|Date of birth=Not yet known.
+|Date of birth=7/2/1918 in Newcastle.
 |Unit=Enlisted RASC 4/4/1940, Posted 12 Driver Training Unit, Posted 18 Reserve Mechanical Transport Company 1/6/1940, Posted 12 Reserve Mech Tpt Coy 27/7/1940.  Served Iceland. Posted No 2 Holding Unit 16/3/1942, Posted 12 Reserve Mech Tpt Coy 18/6/1942. Attached 70th Infantry Brigade 22/6/1942. Attached 547 Gen Tpt Coy 14/8/1942. Posted 2 Mobilisation Centre - Depot Coy 8/11/1942. Posted Heavy AA Regt 11/11/1942. Posted 1507 Heavy AA Regt Section 13/2/1943. Posted 1504 Heavy AA Troop Sec 27/3/1943. Posted No 1 Holding Bn 22/4/1943. Posted 197 Armoured Bde 28/4/1943. Posted 648 Armoured Div Tpt 15/10/1943. Posted 44 Tpt Column 28/6/1944. Posted 104 Coy (Army Tpt) 18/9/1944. Attached 53 RHU 7/5/1945. Attached 104 Coy (Army Tpt) 15/6/1945. Posted 69 Inf Bde Tpt Coy 27/1/1946. Posted 504 Bde 8/2/1946. Released to Reserve 11/8/1946. Discharged from liability to serve 30/6/1959.
 |Company/Battery=70 Bde Hq
 |Platoon or other sub-unit=RASC Brigade Transport Company.
-|Task or role=Driver
+|Task or role=Driver.
-|Joined Brigade=22/6/1942
+|Joined Brigade=22/6/1942.
-|Wounded=Yes - in Germany, details not known.
+|Wounded=Yes - in Holland (some souces say Germany) in 1944, full details not known.
-|Died/Killed in action=Date of death not yet known.
+|Died/Killed in action=Died 12/1/1959 from Rheumatic Fever.
 |Home address=No further family information as yet.
 |Source table=70BG
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 Without a rabbi, with only two prayer shawls and one skullcap, the new congregation's services went well. Alfred Conway, a cantor from Leeds, sang the Kol Nidre prayer. Chaplain Hood gave a speech and talked about British soccer and long jump. The audience was not impressed. After the full day of fasting and services, followed by a photographing session, the hungry people gathered for a meal at a nearby Reykjavík hotel, and the first Jewish congregation in Iceland was officially founded".
-A photograph of this Jewish event (Rosh Hashanah) in Iceland is set out below - related to the presence of a Canadian soldier, later killed in the Fieppe Raid.  Cantor Conway (Cohen) is seated on the left.  Thanks are due to Howard Conway for spotting this image and forwarding it to the author.  The photograoh appeared in the Canadian Jewish News of September 2015.
+A photograph of a Jewish event (Rosh Hashanah or Jewish New Year) in Iceland is set out below - related to the presence of a Canadian soldier, later killed in the Fieppe Raid.  Cantor Conway (Cohen) is seated on the left.  Thanks are due to Howard Conway for spotting this image in the Canadian Jewish News and forwarding it to the author.  The photograoh appeared in the Canadian Jewish News of September 2015.
 [[File:Rosh_Hashanah_-_Iceland.jpg|800px|thumb|centre|Group photo after the Rosh Hashanah service in Reykjavik]]

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	Without a rabbi, with only two prayer shawls and one skullcap, the new congregation's services went well. Alfred Conway, a cantor from Leeds, sang the Kol Nidre prayer. Chaplain Hood gave a speech and talked about British soccer and long jump. The audience was not impressed. After the full day of fasting and services, followed by a photographing session, the hungry people gathered for a meal at a nearby Reykjavík hotel, and the first Jewish congregation in Iceland was officially founded".		Without a rabbi, with only two prayer shawls and one skullcap, the new congregation's services went well. Alfred Conway, a cantor from Leeds, sang the Kol Nidre prayer. Chaplain Hood gave a speech and talked about British soccer and long jump. The audience was not impressed. After the full day of fasting and services, followed by a photographing session, the hungry people gathered for a meal at a nearby Reykjavík hotel, and the first Jewish congregation in Iceland was officially founded".
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		+	A photograph of this Jewish event (Rosh Hashanah) in Iceland is set out below - related to the presence of a Canadian soldier, later killed in the Fieppe Raid. Cantor Conway (Cohen) is seated on the left. Thanks are due to Howard Conway for spotting this image and forwarding it to the author.
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		+	[[File:Rosh_Hashanah_-_Iceland.jpg\|800px\|thumb\|centre\|Group photo after the Rosh Hashanah service in Reykjavik]]