Rifleman Soloman Cohen was an English soldier of the British Army who died during the First World War.
He was born in London, the son of Polish-born parents Joseph, a street hawker of fruit, and Esther Cohen. At the time of the 1911 Census, the Cohen family were residing at 11 Hutchison Street, Aldgate.
Aged 19, Cohen died on 16 January 1918 while serving on the Western Front with the 1st Battalion, The Royal Irish Rifles.
He has no known grave and is commemorated by the Tyne Cot Memorial.
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- Ancestry.co.uk.
- Cohen, Soloman, cwgc.org. Retrieved 10 June 2015.