For Honour's Sake is brought to you by AJEX The Jewish Military Association.
The history of the Jewish contribution to Britain's armed forces begins at the moment of Resettlement, stretches through the Restoration, Georgian and Victorian eras, into the 20th Century, and right up until the modern day. Well over a hundred thousand Jews, from a community that has never numbered more than 400,000 have fought in all conflicts, in all places, at all levels, and in all ways.
For Honour's Sake recounts these stories and speaks to those who served.
Solomon Ohayon: Jewish WW2 veteran who lied about his age to fight fascism - and fought all the way into Germany
The final episode of Series took us to the home of Solly Ohayon, 100. Like so many, his first experience of WWII was as an evacuee, before he was old enough to join-up and become part of the effort directly, just missing D-Day. However, as an infantry signaller he served with a few different cap badges, finishing the conflict under the North Staffordshire Regiment as part of the British Liberation Army, fighting all the way into Germany. He was still “on the books” as part of the Army Rese...
17 Aug 2026
Cyril Shorts: the Jewish King's Own Scottish Borderer who survived the Blitz to help liberate Belgium
At his home in Stanmore, Cyril tells Dan of fighting through Belgium and Germany with the King's Own Scottish Borderers, including liberating the Neuengamme concentration camp network. Our host and guest also discussed growing up in Dalston and Stoke Newington amid the rise of antisemitism, surviving the Blitz (including an unexploded incendiary bomb in his bathroom), and postwar life with his beloved Letty, to whom he was married for 60 years. For more information on AJEX: https://www.ajex.o...
12 Aug 2026
Stanley Roth: RMP National Serviceman, cabbie, and historian of the London taxi trade
Once again hosted by Bare Arms, Stanley tells Dan about his early life, including as an evacuee during WWII, joining up for National Service in 1955 (including camouflage and concealment training in Richmond Park), volunteering for the Royal Military Police, deploying to Berlin, negotiating the Cold War intricacies there, and participating in the Jewish community as it continued to re-establish itself after the Shoah. After demobilising, Stanley followed his father and uncles and became a cab...
6 Aug 2026
Neville Silver: Korean War veteran and pioneering gunner who went on to oversee construction of Britain's first motorways
Dan and Neville (probably the last British Jewish veteran of the Korean War) discuss growing up in the East Midlands, his role running soundranging operations at the front line with the Royal Artillery 1951-52, and pursuing his engineering career after demobilisation. Neville was also presented with an original silk formation insignia of the 1st Commonwealth Division, under which UK troops served in Korea. For more information on AJEX: https://www.ajex.org.uk/ To donate: https://www.aje...
29 Jul 2026
Ron Shelley: the National Serviceman who helped build AJEX and served twice as its National Chair
Dan visits the home in north London of one of his most illustrious AJEX predecessors, Ron Shelley. Ron served in the Royal Army Pay Corps during National Service, interrupting and then pursuing his career in accountancy. He remains a devoted AJEX member, one of the association's true stalwarts, and was its youngest National Chair (in the 1970s) before serving again in the role at the turn of the millenium. For more information on AJEX: https://www.ajex.org.uk/ To donate: https://www.aje...
22 Jul 2026
Monty Goldstein: the WWII gunner on growing up in the East End, surviving the Blitz, his career in the schmutter trade, and meeting Anthony Eden
This episode takes us to the home of Monty Goldstein in East London. 102 this year, Monty was a driver and gunner with the Royal Artillery from 1943-45. We spoke about growing up in London's East End, surviving the Blitz, his wartime service, a career in the schmutter trade, and getting Anthony Eden to sign an AJEX Annual Parade brochure in the 1950s. For more information on AJEX: https://www.ajex.org.uk/ To donate: https://www.ajex.org.uk/donate Our social media accounts can...
13 Jul 2026
Barrington Black: from National Service to legal trailblazer
Dan meets Barrington Black, at his home in north London, to discuss his inspiring Great Uncle's WWI sacrifice, father's WWII service with the RMP, his own "reverse evacuation" (!) to London and then Wales, schooling in Leeds, eventually joining up with the RASC for his National Service aged 24, and making friends with Alan Bennett. Barrington went on to have a putative political career, and a highly successful law career. This included being junior counsel on the defence team of Donald Neilso...
6 Jul 2026
David Elvy: former Intelligence Corps reservist and Cold Warrior who served in Germany, East and West
This episode takes a look at Cold Warrior David's service, bringing his civilian expertise as a surveyor to bear as part of BRIXMIS in East and West Germany, in the 1970s and 80s. He also developed expertise in IEDs in Northern Ireland, rigging up dummy (but still slightly kinetic) versions for training purposes. David also spoke very movingly of visiting the site of Bergen Belsen with a Wehrmacht officer. And told of a memorable encounter back in Britain with King Charles III, then the Princ...
24 Jun 2026
Maurice Jay: a story of service at home and abroad at the end of WWII, followed by a distinguished career in journalism
Now 100-years old, Maurice’s WWII service began manning anti-aircraft guns in London with the Home Guard, before joining the Royal Signals. Sent for parachute training, he broke his arm and missed his unit’s deployment to Europe. Instead, he threw himself into jungle training in the Norfolk fens, preparing to join the war in the east. While en route, the atomic bombs were dropped on Japan and the war was over. We also talked about his post-war service in Kenya, Egypt and Libya; his career a...
16 Jun 2026
Doris Rose: the 105-year old ATS veteran radar operator and post-war trade unionist
Interviewed at her care home in Westcliff-on-Sea, Doris tells us about coming of age as WWII began, meeting husband Harry during the Blitz, her ATS service, and working for trade unions after the war. Like so many, especially women, who served on the homefront, she never claimed the medals to which she was entitled. So Dan put that right, at the end of the interview, presenting Doris with an original Defence and War Medal pair. As well as an Armed Forces Veteran's Badge. Thank you for your se...
9 Jun 2026
Mark Gerson: on liberating Europe, witnessing Buchenwald, and becoming an internationally-lauded photographer of the literati
It was a privilege to be welcomed into the home of 104-year old Mark Gerson, and to be joined by his daughter Jane. Mark served as an RAF radio operator and mechanic in WWII, flying in support of the British Liberation Army as it freed France, the Low Lands, and on into Germany. For him, all the way to the gates of Buchenwald. Mark tells Dan about growing up amid the rise of antisemitism in the twenties and thirties, his eagerness to join the war effort at 19, serving from 1941, his accolade-...
30 Jul 2025
Sue Warner, The Invictus Games Athlete, on a Royal Navy career from The Falklands to Afghanistan
The podcast hopped over to Belfast to interview Sue Warner (and husband Julian). There’s not many people whose military career spanned both the Falklands War and Afghanistan but Sue served as a Royal Navy nurse in the first and in the same trade as a Reservist in the second. With an NHS career overlapping too. We talked about leaving home at 16, the particular challenges of nursing on a hospital ship in a broiling sea, teaching her captain and crew to waltz, returning to service in Helmand, ...
28 Jun 2025
Ken Smith on joining the army at the end of WWII and the rebuilding of Europe
Born in 1927, Ken Smith was an evacuee who just missed the end of WWII but served for four years in the 4th Queen’s Own Hussars, in Italy and Germany, as the allies began rebuilding Europe and staking out the Cold War. We discussed his military career, his childhood in Notting Hill, his evacuation in Wiltshire, and his experiences in the film industry, which included mixing with many movie stars. After the film industry, Ken became a successful businessman and has been a long support o...
30 May 2025
Ruth Brook Klauber: 101 year-old RAF veteran who fled persecution and served in WWII
Ruth Brook Klauber, born in Frankfurt in 1924, was just nine years-old when her family fled to Britain following Hitler’s rise to power. Now aged 101, she speaks with us on 'For Honour's Sake' where we also had the honour of presenting her with her UK War Medal and the UK Defence Medal in recognition of her service with the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) during the Second World War. Ruth's decision to enlist came in 1941. She rejected role's as a cook or batwoman, and opted to train as a ...
26 Apr 2025
Henny Franks- The 101 year old WWII veteran and Kindertransport refugee.
AJEX National Chair Dan Fox is joined by Henny Franks at Jewish Care’s Holocaust Survivors’ Centre. Henny was born Henriette Grünbaum in Cologne in 1927. Aged 15, she escaped to London on the Kindertransport with her 12 year old sister. Her father was to die in Sobibor but her mother went into hiding in Italy, Switzerland and Belgium. By 1942, Henny was Pte Greenbaum of the Auxiliary Territorial Service, driving trucks and working in munitions. They talked about her childhood, her ATS s...
24 Mar 2025
Jamie & Amba Cooper-Morris - Royal Engineers veteran and Adult Instructors in the Army Cadet Force
AJEX National Chair Dan Fox is joined by Royal Engineers veteran Jamie Cooper-Morris and his wife Amba (with a guest appearance from Cooper-Morris Junior!) at their home in Kent. They talk about Jamie's extensive operational army career, and his second calling in the Ambulance Service, a career introduced to him by Amba. They met through the Kent Army Cadet Force, in which they both serve as Adult Instructors. We also discuss the effect of their careers on Jamie’s and Amba's ment...
22 Feb 2025
Barrie Davey - Pt II - Our Chelsea Pensioner's military service in post-war Britain
In Part II of our second episode, AJEX National Chair Dan Fox continues the conversation with Chelsea In-Pensioner Barrie Davey. Barrie chronicles his military service - and finding, and his attachment to, Judaism. We also get a look into life at the Royal Hospital Chelsea, and we are enormously grateful to them for their support in making this episode happen. Barrie is a regular at AJEX events and to quote Dan: 'You'll know Barrie, he's in the Red Coat.' Don't forget to listen to Part...
21 Feb 2025
Barrie Davey - Pt I - Our Chelsea Pensioner's Wartime Childhood
In our second episode, AJEX National Chair Dan Fox is joined by Chelsea In-Pensioner, Barrie Davey. In this first of a two-part episode, Barrie talks about his early life growing up as World War II draws to a close, and life in post-war Britain. It was an often idyllic but sometimes traumatic childhood (with recounting some listeners might find upsetting). This is a record of social history not to be missed. Don't forget to listen to Part II, where Dan and Barrie discuss his long ...
22 Jan 2025
Daniel Berke - Author of 'Captured Behind Japanese Lines'
In our first ever episode, AJEX National Chair Dan Fox is joined by Daniel Berke, author of 'Captured Behind Japanese Lines'. It is a story he felt compelled to tell: of his grandfather's experiences as a Wingate Chindit and Prisoner of War in Burma, in World War II. Frank Berkovitch was a Jewish tailor from Manchester, thrown into the most challenging and terrifying of circumstances. In researching his book, Daniel retraced Frank's steps through India and Burma, to reveal a story of great c...
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