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North
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War Memorials, - Middlesbrough, - Jewish Synagogue |
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The First World War Memorial, Middlesbrough's Jewish Synagogue
Photo : Bolckow
The above War Memorial was originally located in the Jewish Synagogue in Brentnall Street in Middlesbrough. This synagogue closed in about 1936 (having grown too small for the congregation), and a new synagogue was opened in Park Road South in 1938. (Ref. A Short History of the Middlesbrough Hebrew Congregation by Philip Niman.). By the 1970s, the Park Road Synagogue had become too large for the then congregation, and was subsequently converted into residential accomodation (Lugs Lodge).
The War Memorial was removed and was relocated in the Hebrew Prayer House in Middlesbrough's Linthorpe Cemetery.
We are very grateful to Bolckow for his photos (posted on Flickr) of this memorial.
Of the 5 names commemorated as having lost their lives in the First World War, 2 were men who served in the Yorkshire Regiment.
| Lieutenant Henry Bloom. 12th Battalion Yorkshire
Regiment. Died 14 February 1917. Buried GUARDS' CEMETERY, COMBLES. (Henry Bloom lived in "The Crescent", Linthorpe, Middlesbrough. He was born in 1889, in Stockton-on-Tees, and was a Solicitor's Clerk.) Further details on Henry Bloom are in the website British Jews in the First World War. |
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| **Lieutenant Bloom was one of 16 soldiers who served in the Yorkshire Regiment who are commemorated in the British Jewry Book of Honour. Of the 50,000 Jews who served with the British and Colonial Forces during the First World War, 2,324 lost their lives and are commemorated in this book. |  |
| Private Philip Marcus Levy. 46560. 9th Battalion
Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Emily Levy, of 174, Linthorpe Rd., Middlesbrough,
and the late Joseph Levy. Born at Sunderland. Died 6 November 1918. Aged
21. Born Sunderland, Enlisted Middlesbrough. Buried BUSIGNY COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION. (Shown on the Middlesbrough Jewish Synagogue War Memorial as "Lance Corporal".) Further details on Philip Marcus Levy are in the website British Jews in the First World War. |
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| **Private Levy was one of 16 soldiers who served in the
Yorkshire Regiment who are commemorated in the British Jewry Book of Honour.
Of the 50,000 Jews who served with the British and Colonial Forces during
the First World War, 2,324 lost their lives and are commemorated in this
book. (He is shown in the book as L/Cpl Levy.) |
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The
Hebrew Prayer House in Middlesbrough's Linthorpe Cemetery.
Photo : Bolckow
The
former Jewish Synagogue in Park Road South, Middlesbrough
Photo : Google Earth
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