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Personal data

• Name
• Initials
• Vorname
• Place of birth Brussels
• Land Belgium
• Last residence Wild Hatch, Hendon
• Family Son of Albert and Harriette Raphael, of 5, Wild Hatch, Hendon, London, and Albert Raphael.
• Education Streatham School, Marchant Taylors', St.John's College (Oxford)
• Profession Barrister
• Extra info Former England International Rugby Football player.
  He also played cricket and was 'a painstaking rather than a brilliant bat'.

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment October 1914, London
• Rank Lieutenant
• Regiment and unit 18th Bn. King's Royal Rifle Corps
• Attached or transferred from 11th - Bn. - West Riding Regiment
• Other data related to military career Gazetted to the Duke of Wellington's Regiment September 1914; Lieutenant December 1914; operation to the arm, September 1915; appointed to the Staff in 1915 as A.D.C. to Major-General Lawford 41st Div.; to France May 1916

Death

• Wounded 7 June, St.Eloi, attack on Messines-Wytschaete Ridge, Damm Strasse
• Type of wounds Died of wounds at n°10 CCS
• Died at the age of 35
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XIII - A - 30

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