Jewish Legion
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The Jewish Legion was a series of battalions of Jewish soldiers who served in the British Army during the First World War. Some participated in the British conquest of Palestine from the Ottomans.
Jewish Legion soldiers in 1919
Ben-Gurion in the uniform of the Jewish Legion, 1918
Lieutenant Colonel John Henry Patterson, commander of the Zion Mule Corps and the 38th Battalion, photographed in 1917.
Soldiers from one of the battalions at the Western Wall after the British capture of Jerusalem, likely in 1918.
Eliezer Margolin
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Eliezer Margolin, was a Russian-born Australian Jew who served as a commander of the Jewish Legion during the First World War.
Margolin in c. 1916
Margolin entering Ben Shemen with soldiers of the 39th Battalion of the King's Slingshots
Margolin's grave in the Rehovot cemetery