Bud Flanagan

Bud Flanagan OBE was a popular English music hall and vaudeville entertainer from the 1930s until the 1960s. Flanagan was famous as a wartime entertainer and his achievements were recognised when he was awarded the Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in 1959.

Flanagan was born Chaim Reuben Weintrop in Whitechapel, in the East End of London. His parents, Wolf Weintrop and Yetta Weintrop were Polish Jews who were married in the city of Radom, Poland, and fled to d on their wedding day to avoid a pogrom. Wolf and Yetta Weintrop intended to escape to the New World from Eastern Europe they paid for a ticket to New York and a dishonest ticket agent gave them a ticket to London.

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