
Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- Brent
- Town
- Willesden
- County
- Greater London
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- Boer War; Second (1899-1902)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 19 March1905
Attended by: FIELD MARSHAL THE RIGHT HONOURABLE EARL ROBERTS VC KG KP GCB OM GCSI GCIE
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 40130
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Current location
In the portico
Willesden Jewish Cemetery
Beaconsfield Road
Willesden
Brent
Greater London
NW10 2JE
England
OS Grid Ref: TQ 22035 84534
Denomination: Jewish
- Previous locations
- On front of building in Great Portland St
CENTRAL SYNAGOGUE
36 Hallam St
Marylebone
City Of Westminster
Greater London
W1N 6NN
England
OS Grid Ref: TQ 280 810
Denomination: Jewish - Replicas
Aldershot Military Synagogue
Badajos Barracks
Aldershot
Rushmoor
Hampshire
England
OS Grid Ref: Undefined
Denomination: Undefined - Show More (1)
- On front of building in Great Portland St
- Description
- Two wall mounted marble tablets. A black central section bearing the inscription in white lettering sat within an ornate white marble ogee frame. Replicas were presented to Aldershot Synagogue in 1912 made of slate tablets with gold inscription within a similarly shaped wooden frame.
- Inscription
- (LEFT HAND TABLET): TO THE GLORY OF GOD/ AND IN/ LOYAL AND PATRIOTIC MEMORY/ OF THE SOLDIERS/ OF THE JEWISH RACE AND FAITH/ WHO LOST THEIR LIVES/ IN THE SERVICE OF THEIR COUNTRY/ DURING THE SOUTH AFRICAN WAR/ 1899-1902/ (NAMES) (RIGHT HAND TABLET): (INSCRIPTION REPEATED IN HEBREW)/ (NAMES)
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Commemorations
- Boer War; Second (1899-1902)
Total names on memorial: 114
Served and returned: 0
Died: 114
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname,rank,regiment,forename
Order of information: rank,surname
- Boer War; Second (1899-1902)
- Components
- Tablets
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Marble - Tablets
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Slate, Wood
- Tablets
- Listing information
- This memorial is not currently listed. Find out how to nominate this memorial for inclusion on the National Heritage List for England
- More about listing and the protection of historic places can be found on the Historic England website
- Condition
- History
- The synagogue was destroyed by enemy action on 10 May 1941, as was the memorial (e-mail from Central Synagogue 4 May 2008). - Replica plaques which were presented to the synagogue at Aldershot by Sir Isidore Spielmann in 1912 are no housed at the Willesden Jewish Cemetery. These were originally located at the Aldershot Synagogue.
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: £500 paid to Union Jack Club to complete and furnish a room in memory of the Jews who had died in the war. - Sponsorship
- Private
- Reference
- For Remembrance and in Honour of Those Who Lost Their Lives in the South African War 1899-1902 by Gildea, James p.149 Published:Eyre and Spottiswoode 1911 London
- The Times 2 Mar. 1905 p.8 col.c
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