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For Honour's Sake is brought to you by AJEX The Jewish Military Association. The history of the Jewish contribution to Britain's armed forces begins at the moment of Resettlement, stretches through the Restoration, Georgian and Victorian eras, into the 20th Century, and right up until the modern day. Well over a hundred thousand Jews, from a community that has never numbered more than 400,000 have fought in all conflicts, in all places, at all levels, and in all ways. For Honour's Sake recou ...
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Ken Smith on joining the Army at the end of WWII and the rebuilding of Europe
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Born in 1927, Ken Smith was an evacuee who just missed the end of WWII but served for four years in the 4th Queen’s Own Hussars, in Italy and Germany, as the allies began rebuilding Europe and staking out the Cold War. We discussed his military career, his childhood in Notting Hill, his evacuation in Wiltshire, and his experiences in the film indus…
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Ruth Brook Klauber: 101 year-old RAF veteran who fled persecution and served in WWII
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Ruth Brook Klauber, born in Frankfurt in 1924, was just nine years-old when her family fled to Britain following Hitler’s rise to power. Now aged 101, she speaks with us on 'For Honour's Sake' where we also had the honour of presenting her with her UK War Medal and the UK Defence Medal in recognition of her service with the Women’s Auxiliary Air Fo…
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Henny Franks- The 101 year old WWII veteran and Kindertransport refugee.
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AJEX National Chair Dan Fox is joined by Henny Franks at Jewish Care’s Holocaust Survivors’ Centre. Henny was born Henriette Grünbaum in Cologne in 1927. Aged 15, she escaped to London on the Kindertransport with her 12 year old sister. Her father was to die in Sobibor but her mother went into hiding in Italy, Switzerland and Belgium. By 1942, Henn…
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Jamie & Amba Cooper-Morris - Royal Engineers veteran and Adult Instructors in the Army Cadet Force
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AJEX National Chair Dan Fox is joined by Royal Engineers veteran Jamie Cooper-Morris and his wife Amba (with a guest appearance from Cooper-Morris Junior!) at their home in Kent. They talk about Jamie's extensive operational army career, and his second calling in the Ambulance Service, a career introduced to him by Amba. They met through the Kent A…
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Barrie Davey - Pt II - Our Chelsea Pensioner's military service in post-war Britain
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In Part II of our second episode, AJEX National Chair Dan Fox continues the conversation with Chelsea In-Pensioner Barrie Davey. Barrie chronicles his military service - and finding, and his attachment to, Judaism. We also get a look into life at the Royal Hospital Chelsea, and we are enormously grateful to them for their support in making this epi…
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Barrie Davey - Pt I - Our Chelsea Pensioner's Wartime Childhood
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In our second episode, AJEX National Chair Dan Fox is joined by Chelsea In-Pensioner, Barrie Davey. In this first of a two-part episode, Barrie talks about his early life growing up as World War II draws to a close, and life in post-war Britain. It was an often idyllic but sometimes traumatic childhood (with recounting some listeners might find ups…
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Daniel Berke - Author of 'Captured Behind Japanese Lines'
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In our first ever episode, AJEX National Chair Dan Fox is joined by Daniel Berke, author of 'Captured Behind Japanese Lines'. It is a story he felt compelled to tell: of his grandfather's experiences as a Wingate Chindit and Prisoner of War in Burma, in World War II. Frank Berkovitch was a Jewish tailor from Manchester, thrown into the most challen…
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