Gus Cohen

Evening Echo carried the obituary abourt Gus Cohen. According to this he was accident prone throughout his life. Friends called  him the Cat,  because they said, he had used up most of his nine lives. His first brush with death was on the Titanic. After the collision alarm was raised, he jumped 60 ft. to the sea, and was later picked up by a lifeboat. His secone brush with death  came during the First  World  War when he escaped with his life, but was blinded in one eye. Later he climbed out of the wrong side of a train and crashed on to the track, Result, bruises. Then he was knocked down  in a London hit-and-run street drama and survived a fractional skull. Cohen lived  at Raymond Court old folks  flats, overlooking the Thames  Estuary in Clifton Terrace, Southend.