Mordaunt Cohen

Mordaunt Cohen MBE TD (6 August 1916 – 16 March 2019) was a British soldier and solicitor.

He was born in Sunderland and educated at the Bede Collegiate School.[1] He volunteered for service in 1940 and commanded Nigerian Muslim troops of the Royal West African Frontier Force, leading them against the Japanese in Burma.[2] After the war, he returned to his legal business, representing trade unions and chairing industrial tribunals.[1] He continued to serve in the Territorial Army, rising to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel.[1] He was an Orthodox Jew and led the Association of Jewish ex-Service Men.[1] He founded Sunderland Polytechnic in 1969 and was its first chairman.[3]

He married Myrella in 1953 and they had two children.[1][nb 1] They were the first British couple to hold simultaneous, full-time judicial positions.[2]

Notes
  1. The Times has his wife's maiden name as Bloom but other sources give it as Cohen, like her husband.
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References
  1. "Lieutenant-Colonel Mordaunt Cohen", The Times, p. 50, 16 May 2019
  2. "Lieutenant Colonel Mordaunt Cohen, Second World War veteran and ex-AJEX chairman, dies at 102", Jewish Chronicle, 17 March 2019
  3. Taylor, Saul (18 March 2019), "Lt. Col Mordaunt Cohen", Jewish News
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