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All extra details are based on information supplied by the College Archivist (see Additional Information). This included the following biographical details: '(1901) Born 30 June 1882, 22 Woburn Place, Bloomsbury, London; son of Israel Mendel Trachtenberg, Commercial Traveller, and Eve Lyons; m Jennie Luxenburg, 4 November 1913. Subject(s): Mathematics; BA 1904. Tutor(s): C E Graves; J R Tanner. Educ: The Latymer School, Hammersmith. Career: Statistician, Tariff Commission 1906-1918; Lance Corporal, 9th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers, Jewish Regiment, Egypt and Palestine 1918. Awards: Exhibition, SJC 1900. Died 12 October 1918 (died of malaria at Jerusalem).' Another biographical source (see References) adds: 'Mendel Trachtenberg, having read Mathematics, joined the Jewish Regiment, The Judaens, in March 1918, and trained in Egypt. He took part in one of the many decisive advances in Palestine against the Ottomans. His platoon officer wrote that ‘it was always a pleasure to be in his presence, for at all times he was cheerful and ever ready to help’. He fell ill in Jerusalem and died of malaria — which killed more men than the fighting itself.'