Prominent Christian personalities joined with leading Jews in memorial services at the West London Synagogue yesterday for Sir Osmond d’Avigdor-Goldsmid, noted Jewish communal leader who died last Sunday.
Among participants in the services, conducted by Rabbi Harold Frederic Reinhart, were the Marquess and Marchioness of Reading; the Earl and Countess Limerick, representing the British Red Cross; Air Vice-Marshal A.E. Borton, representing the Kent Territorials; Viscount Bearsted, former Austrian Minister Sir George and Lady Frankenstein, and Sir Robert Waley Cohen. Representatives of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, the Anglo-Jewish Association and other Jewish organizations were also among the several hundred participants.
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