Jewish Legion
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Timeline
- 1917 - Harry Furst 'returned to London in 1917 with the late Vladimir Jabotinsky to advocate the creation of Jewish units to serve with Field-Marshal Allenby's army in the campaign against the Turks. When these were formed he joined the 1st Jewish Battalion (38th Royal Fusiliers) and was appointed to the recruiting office in Jerusalem. A powerful platform speaker, Mr. Furst was sincere and outspoken and was a highly respected figure in the Zionist and Labour movements in Great Britain and the Yishuv'.[1]
- 1914-18 - The Beit Hagdudim (Jewish Legion Museum) in Israel holds short biographies and pictures of Scottish participants in the Jewish Battalion including Charles Black, Alexander Berger, N. Walport, Isadore Most, and Ephraim Myer Naftalin. Jabotinsky mentions Harry First as an ardent Zionist and promoter of the Battalion, and both Jabotinsky and Colonel Patterson praise Lieutenant Lipsey for his work recruiting among Palestinian Jews. See Jabotinsky, The Story of the Jewish Legion, pp. 64, 75-76, 114; SJAC, OHP3 Misha Louvish; Patterson, With the Judeans, p. 60.[2]
Notes
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