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The First World War Roll of Honour for Hackney Synagogue
The First World War Roll of Honour for Hackney Synagogue
Photo : Stephen Danzig of the Imperial War Museum's Register of War Memorials

The Hackney Synagogue is now known as the Hackney & East London Synagogue. Before 1935 it was known as the South Hackney Synagogue and between 1935 and 1993 was the Hackney Synagogue.

The synagogue is located on 2a Triangle Road, Hackney, London E8 3RP.

24 members of the congregation are commemorated as having lost their lives in the First World War, of whom 1 was an Officer who served in the Yorkshire Regiment.

2nd Lieutenant Robert Bernard Abrahams. 4th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Lewis and Millie Abrahams, of 6, Stafford House, Maida Hill, London. Killed 14 September 1916. Aged 24.
Commemorated on Pier and Face 3A & 3D, THIEPVAL MEMORIAL.
(Lieutenant Abrahams was one of 13 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.)
The following comments are provided by Robert Couson in his Biographies of Officers of the Yorkshire Regiment;-
"A solicitor before the war, Robert Abrahams worked for Roberts, Abrahams and Co in London.
He joined the London University Officer Training Corps in July of 1915 and was commissioned with the 4th Battalion in September 1915.
Robert Abrahams lost his life during the Battle of the Somme in the summer of 1916.
In late August and early September the 4th Battalion were involved in training exercises in the Millencourt area. On September 10th they were called into brigade support at Shelter Wood and on the evening of September 14th the battalion moved up into their assembly positions in Eye and Swansea trenches for an attack the following day.
They had to move up over open ground as the communication trenches were so crowded. The Germans opened fire on the battalion and caused some forty casualties.
2nd Lt Robert Bernard Abrahams was killed in this action on September 14th 1916 aged 24."
Further details on Robert Bernard Abrahams in the website British Jews in the First World War.

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