Cromer Servicemen and Servicewomen in the First World War

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Name	Myer Joseph Levine
Ward	Cromer
Notes	Second (Flight?) Lieutenant, Royal Air Force. He was killed, aged 18, in an aerial collision on the 8th May 1918, near Stamford, Lincolnshire. He had been a student at Bracondale School in Norwich and was at the Paston School in 1913-1914; earlier in his flying career he had been training at the airfield at Sedgeford in west Norfolk. He was a Lieutenant in the Royal Army Service Corps and then the Royal Flying Corps, which became the Royal Air Force on 1st April 1918. He was one of the sons of Louis and Barbara Levine, of "Dunrobin", Norwich Rd., Cromer; his brother Cyril's name also appears in the Roll of Honour at Cromer and they are both also remembered on the Overstrand Roll of Honour. As members of the Jewish faith, they don't appear on the respective war memorials with the associated Christian symbolism. Further details of Myer's squardron can be found at this web link. Mr Levine senior was a well-known business man at Cromer; his jeweller's shop was at 7, Church Street.
Service Information	He enlisted as a private in the Northumberland Fusiliers in June 1915. He would have been 16 at the time.
Date of Birth	10/09/1899
Place of Birth	Norwich
Date of Death	08/05/1918
Place of Death	Stamford, Lincolnshire
Place of Burial	Earlham Cemetery, Norwich
Source	Roll of Honour, Paston School Roll of Honour, WWW sources
	Myer Levine's photo from the Paston School Roll of Honour.
	Myer Levine's photo from the Cromer parish church Roll of Honour.
	A photo of Myer Levine from a contemporary newspaper.
	AIR TRAGEDIES NORFOLK FLYING OFFICER KILLED LIEUT. M.J.LEVINE'S TRAGIC DEATH An aerial accident in the East Midlands on Wednesday night result in the deaths of Flight-Lieut. Arthur Burrell Thorne (23), Flight-Sec.Lieut. Mayer John Levine (18). and Howard Watson (19). Ascending from a Lincolnshire aerodrome, they had travelled some distance when the two machines at a great height collided and became locked, and, turning over and over, crashed to the ground. Flight-Lieut. Levine was the third son of Mr.and Mrs.L.Levine of Norwich and Cromer. Educated at Bracondale School, Norwich, and the Paston School, North Walsham, the gallant young officer enlisted when only 15 as a private in the Northumberland Fusiliers early in 1915. At the age of 16 he was a sergeant in the A.S.C., and his exceptional ability last autumn gained him the offer of a commission in the Royal Air Force. He had proved a skilful airman, and had just passed his graduated examination, and won his "wings". Amongst other accomplishments he was a talented vocalist, and in addition to Cromer Pier concerts, his delightful baritone solos had met with much favour at entertainments for charity and to wounded soldiers at Newcastle and other big centres where he had been station. It is expected that the body will be brought home of burial at Norwich by the side of his solder brother Cyril, of the Machine Gun Corps, who died almost a year ago from wounds received in the battle of Arras.