Allan Berkeley

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Allan Berkeley (born 1903 - died 1990 at 78 in Eastwood and Mearns[1]) was a Glasgow Zionist and Freemason.Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; refs with no name must have content Married Ida Berkeley (nee Schuster) in the Gorbals in 1945[2]

Ninety-year-old Ida Schuster became the first woman to lay a wreath on behalf of Glasgow Ajex at its annual Remembrance parade on Sunday. Mrs Schuster, a former WAF, said: "My late husband, Dr Alan Berkeley, was a prisoner of war in Japan and I was delighted to be asked to lay the wreath." The parade of about 80 people was led by the Glasgow Jewish Lads' and Girls' Brigade band. It marched from the cenotaph at Mearns Cross to Newton Mearns Synagogue where Rabbi Raphael Bokov of Queens Park and Clarkston Synagogue, led the service.[3]


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  1. BERKELEY ALLAN 78 LEVINE M 1990 650 / 537 Eastwood and Mearns
  2. BERKELEY ALLAN SHUSTER IDA 1945 644 / 15 / 627 Gorbals
  3. Ninety-year-old Ida Schuster became the first woman to lay a wreath on behalf of Glasgow Ajex, Jewish Chronicle, November 13, 2008 16:15.