Lieutenant-Colonel John Henry Patterson was a British Army officer, hunter, and author best known for his book The Man-eaters of Tsavo, which details Patterson's experiences during the construction of
John Henry Patterson
Lieutenant-Colonel Patterson with the first Tsavo lion – killed 9 December 1898
Taurotragus oryx pattersonianus by Joseph Smit (1907)
The 38th battalion of the Royal Fusiliers, led by Patterson (lead horse – left), marches in the streets of London, February 1918
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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.
John Henry Patterson (author)
…Killers of Kilimanjaro (1959), and The Ghost and the Darkness (1996). During the First World War, Patterson served as the commander of the British Army's Jewish Legion, which has been described as the first precursor to the Israel Defense Forces. Patterson was born in 1867 in Forgney, Ballymahon, County Longford…
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.