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English: In the fascinating transcript attached to this item, Helen Lawrence recalls her aunt’s husband, Max Marchofsky, and her own father, Isaac Benkovitch (later Benwick). Max’s wife had died in childbirth in 1915 leaving six young children. Max served as a Private with the Middlesex Regiment, and amid the celebrations on Armistice Day in 1918, a telegram arrived announcing his death six days earlier, leaving six orphaned children some of whom were brought up by Helen’s mother. Helen’s father, Isaac, was a devout man, passionate about music, who served with the Prince of Wales Own West Yorkshire Light Infantry amid the horrors of the trenches in France and after the war with the occupying army in Cologne where he was able to attend the Rhine Opera House. Isaac was eager to pass on to Helen his strong conviction that there should be “no more war”. [Contributed via Age Exchange (http://www.age-exchange.org.uk) as part of the Children of the Great War project (http://www.childrenofthegreatwar.org.uk) at a collection day at RAF Hendon, UK.