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Auction: 24113 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 629

The Second World War B.E.M. awarded to W. Solomon, Senior Assistant Fire Guard Officer and Training Officer, Cleethorpes, who was Mayor of Cleethorpes in 1958 and a prominent Jewish businessman in the town

British Empire Medal, G.VI.R., Civil Division (Wolfe Solomon.), mounted as worn, good very fine

B.E.M. London Gazette 9 January 1946.

Wolfe (Woolf) Solomon was born on 20 May 1899 at Manchester. In the 1939 Register he is recorded as a house furnisher shop keeper living at 292 Brereton Avenue, Cleethorpes. He was Mayor of Cleethorpes in 1958 and a life president of the Grimsby Hebrew congregation. Solomon died at Leeds on 10 September 1970. A full obituary and picture of Solomon appears in the Grimsby Evening Telegraph, 10 September 1970; sold with copied obituary.

For further information: https://www.jewishgen.org/JCR-UK/Community/Gr/index.htm.

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Sold for
£500

Starting price
£100