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Plaque | War dead | WW1, WW2

Lauderdale Road Synagogue - WW1 and WW2

Inscription

Spanish & Portuguese Jews Congregation
In honoured memory of the men of this congregation who fell, 1914 - 1918.
{38 names}

1939 - 1945
{18 names}
Their names liveth for evermore.

  provides a personal profile for each of the WW1 names.

The WW1 list of names is identical to that listed at Bevis Marks, with 2 differences: here Robert M. Sebag-Montefiore is given his middle initial, and Katherine C. Bonny (the only woman on the Bevis Marks list) is omitted. 

The WW2 list of names is identical to that listed at Bevis Marks, with 2 differences: here Louis Rodquediz Miranda and  Peter Sykes are not listed.

 

Site: Lauderdale Road Synagogue - 3 plaques (3 memorials)

W9, Ashworth Road, Lauderdale Road Synagogue

The war memorial can be seen in our photo.  All three plaques are clustered at the corner of the building closest to our camera. The Montefiore foundation stone is also visible, one side of it, in the close-up photograph of the war memorial. We thank Colin Burducea, S&P Community, for generously providing most of our close-up photographs and answering our queries.

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This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Lauderdale Road Synagogue - WW1 and WW2

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World War 1

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World War 2

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Second Lieutenant Arthur Philip Abecasis

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This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
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Lauderdale Road Synagogue  - Halford

Lauderdale Road Synagogue - Halford

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Lauderdale Road Synagogue - Montefiore

Lauderdale Road Synagogue - Montefiore

This plaque is actually composed of two stones.

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