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Pte. Hyman Kurtzman
British Army 1st/6th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Edinburgh
(d.15th September 1916)
Corporal Hyman Kurtzman, the brother of William Mack DCM. (Family changed name to Coutts/Mack) 1st/6th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers, born at Edinburgh in 1897, was the son of Barnet Maurice Kurtzman, a shoemaker, and Esther Sander Kurtzman, of Ashley Buildings, High Street, Edinburgh, then 71 Rose Street, Glasgow, and later 24 Waverley Buildings, Edinburgh.
He enlisted at Newcastle-upon-Tyne. He was killed in action on 15 September 1916, age 19, and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France.