Max Frederick Isaac
Memorial: South Gloucestershire war dead not on a local memorial
Regiment: Royal Navy
Medals: 1939–45 Star, War Medal 1939–1945
Rank and number: Lieutenant
Parents: Gilbert Jess and Florence Annie Isaac
Marital status: Married
Home address: Larch Cottage, Kingston, Taunton
Date of birth: 1910
Date of death: 23/10/1941
Buried/Commemorated at: Died at sea and commemorated on Portsmouth Naval Memorial and on the Isaac family gravestone in Holy Trinity Churchyard, Wickwar
Age: 30
Further information:
Max married Stella Elizabeth Corner in the Summer of 1938 in Glamorgan.
HMS Cossack was a RN destroyer. In October 1941 she left Gibraltar as part of a flotilla escorting a slow, UK bound convoy. She was taking up the rear and on the night of the 23rd, was hit by a torpedo from U- boat U-563 which caused an explosion of the ammunition on board and flooded No 1 boiler room. The Captain and 158 of his officers and men including Max were killed with a further 29 injured. The survivors abandoned ship and were picked up by other boats in the flotilla.
Max’s parents died in 1967 within 3 months of each other and were buried in Wickwar graveyard where they commemorated their son on the family gravestone.
By kind permission, this information is based on the following source(s):
This information has been provided by Sarah Hands, Volunteer Researcher for the South Gloucestershire War Memorials Web Site.
By kind permission, this information is based on the following source(s):
https://www.cwgc.org/
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/
https://www.findmypast.co.uk/
https://www.forces-war-records.co.uk/
https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/public/img/253138/599323d248adf_IMAG0753.jpg?v=5d39f45c3cb44