Ginsburg, Leonard E.

Plot Location	Sai Wan Cemetery Joint grave IV. G. 4-5
Surname	Ginsburg
Given Name(s)	Leonard Emmanuel
Place of Birth	Glasgow, Scotland
Date of Birth (Eng)	circa November 1919
Date of Birth (Heb)
Date of Death (Eng)	December 25, 1941
Date of Death (Heb)
Age at Death	22
Hebrew Name	אריה עמנואל בן שמואל
Spouse’s Name
Father’s Name	Samuel Ginsburg
Mother’s Name	Bessie Shinwell
Other Surnames	Winter
Sex	M
Marital Status	S
Maiden Name
Service Rank	Lance Corporal
Religious Status (כ/ל/י)
Cause of Death	Killed in action
Other Family Data	He was an only child but he had step-siblings from his father’s first marriage — William George, Jenny and Simon (Sydney)
Inscription (Eng)	In memory of our beloved son Leonard. Never to be forgotten.
Inscription (Heb)
Inscription (Other)
Historical	He was a Lance Corporal with the Middlesex Regiment, 1st Battalion, service number 6206702. He served under the surname “Winter”. A stained glass window in Garnethill Synagogue remembers him and others who died in WWII. In the early 1940’s, his parents ran a hotel in Glasgow called Ginsburg’s (or Ginsburgh’s) Crescent Hotel. They lived in Newlands. David Zucker wrote on 15 January 2021: “Leonard was the only son of my Aunt Bessie Ginsburg. She was a sister of [British politician] Lord Emanuel (Manny) Shinwell and of my Grandpa Joseph Shinwell. “I don’t know why Leonard chose Winter to serve under, except that his maternal grandmother’s maiden name was Rose Konigswinter.”

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