This memorial is unusual as it is one of very few freestanding First World War memorials to Jewish servicemen in the UK. 

Unveiled at Rosh Hashanah 1919, this memorial stands in Urmston Jewish Cemetery in South Manchester, and commemorates 22 local servicemen from the Jewish community who died in the First World War, including sons of the memorial’s designer and donor, Al Carliph. 

After the Second World War, another panel commemorating a further 6 Jewish servicemen who died in this conflict was added. The memorial was re-dedicated in June 2004 and marble plaques replicating the First World War inscriptions were fixed over the original text on the obelisk.

The obelisk in Urmston Jewish Cemetery, in the Classical style and with inscriptions in Hebrew and English, is Grade II listed because of both its historical and architectural interest.