Wing Commander LF Cohen
Lionel FW Cohen
- Rank
- Flight Lt
- Later rank
- Wing Commander
- Honours
- DSO MC DFC
- Born
- 1875
- Fate
- Survived the war. Died 1960
- In the book
- Pages 91
From the book
More than a “Few” South Africans
Lionel Frederick William Cohen arrived in South Africa before Pierre Simmond Joubert was born. The apparently rebellious 16-year-old was born in Newcastle on Tyne in 1875 had been sent out to South Africa by his parents to work for his uncle Harry Freeman Cohen, founder of the “Rand Daily Mail”. Eighteen -year-old Trooper Cohen participated in the Matabeleland campaign, fought in the Anglo- Boer War, inherited the “Rand Daily Mail” which he sold, made, and lost money.
More than a “Few” South Africans
Closely involved in the RAFVR’s 1937 founding, sixty-four-year-old Pilot Officer Lionel Cohen’s 1939 Flight Lt appointment was announced in “The London Gazette” on February 6th, 1940. That issue included appointment announcements relating to South Africans ESS Nash, DD Snooke and BP Young.
More than a “Few” South Africans
Wing Commander LFW Cohen DSO MC DFC survived four wars and had lived a full life when he died in 1960 at the age of 85.