Flying Officer P H Greenburgh (window)

Commonwealth War Graves Commission; Flying Officer PETER HAROLD GREENBURGH, Service Number: 151688, 39 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. Died 17 June 1944, aged 21. Buried in Joint grave 21. D. 3-4. at PHALERON WAR CEMETERY, Greece. 'Son of Mark and Millicent Greenburgh'. https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2932196/peter-harold-greenburgh/

Manchester Evening News, Monday 26 June 1944 (page 4) reported: 'Flying-Officer Peter H. Greenburgh, Cavendish Road, Kersal (missing believed killed C.M.F.). Was 21 a month ago. Trained in Canada. Went from North Manchester Grammar School to Ecole d'Horlogerie, in Switzerland, and on returning to this country in 1939 volunteered immediately thought [sic] he was under age'. (The report included a photo of the deceased).

Manchester Reform Synagogue; history page, re the Jackson Road premises, states that: 'On 18th May 1952 the site was consecrated and was opened on 29th November 1953'. https://www.jacksonsrow.org/our-history/

ibid; biographical details of WW1 and WW2 casualties; 'PETER GREENBURGH was a pilot in the RAF. He was the younger son of Mark and Millie, brother of Leslie and Lilian, from Kersal, Salford. He died on 17 June 1944 on service in Greece or the Balkans and is buried in Greece. His sister Lilian was the mother of current members Mark Levy and Rhona Beenstock; his brother Leslie married Rita, the sister of another casualty, Joseph Noar. Peter is commemorated on our stained glass window with Ruth and Naomi on it along with his parents, dedicated by Leslie and Lilian'.: https://www.jacksonsrow.org/our-history/background-of-members-who-died-in-the-first-and-second-world-wars/