Age 25. 23 Westmore Road, Dorchester (Boston), MA. Born 4/04/1917, in Brooklyn, NY. Died of burns (death certificate). Private, U.S. Army, stationed at the recruit reception center, Fort Devens, Ayer, MA. Companion (or companions) if any at the club unknown. His body was reported as located directly within the fire ruins then transported to the Army hospital at Fort Banks in Winthrop, MA. "As a tribute to the memory of Private Adler, popular among his buddies at the recruit reception centre...the processing of New England selectees was halted, and one minute silence observed..." (The Boston Post, 12/01/1942). Was single. Raised in Boston. Graduate of Roxbury Memorial High School, Boston, 1935. Was a shipping clerk at Elite Shoe Co. (ladies' novelty shoes), in Framingham, MA, prior to his Army induction the past August. Slight build (WWII draft registration, October '40: 5' 7," 130 lbs.). One of 18 active Army personnel killed in the disaster (out of a total of 58 active personnel lost from all U.S. military branches). One of 464 club guests claimed in addition to 24 non-patrons (including 17 employees, 6 visiting entertainers, one War Bonds salesgirl, also two outside passing rescuers, Harold Hawkins, age 46, and Stanley Viator, age 25). One of 33 persons taken at the age of 25, the most frequent specific age at death among all 490 Grove victims. Parents Mr. and Mrs. Hyman and Rebecca "Beckie" (Elfenbein) Adler, same address. Burial at Washington Street (Puritan Mt. Sinai) Cemetery, Woburn, MA. One of nine fire casualties laid to rest at the above Washington Street collective Jewish cemeteries (also Hyman Horch, age 31, George Karnow, age 25, Miss Barbara Keshen, age 23, Philip Seletsky, age 39, club waiter Harold Snyderman, age 32, Hyman Strogoff, age 41, Jacob "Jack" Vigdor, age 47, and Miss Florence Zimmerman, age 22). Middle name David.