Corporal Abraham Philip Solkow was an English soldier of the British Army who died during the First World War.
He was born c. 1897, in Manchester, the son of Russian-born parents Harris, a general dealer in hardware, and Annie Solkow. At the time of the 1911 census, the family were resident at 1 Well Street, Hanley, in Staffordshire.
Solkow died on 30 November 1917, in the Battle of Cambrai, while serving with the 6th Battalion, The King's Shropshire Light Infantry on the Western Front. He formerly belonged to the Montgomeryshire Yeomanry.
He has no known grave and is commemorated by the Cambrai Memorial.
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- Solkow, Abraham Philip, cwgc.org. Retrieved 16 December 2012.