Abrahamson, Shmuel

During the First World War he lived in the city of Holl, England, and volunteered for the Jewish Legion – the 38th Battalion of King’s Slugs. Together with the battalion he arrived in Palestine to participate in the conquest of the Turks. He fought in battles on the way to Nablus and in the battle over the Jordan crossings. At the beginning of October 1918, the battalion conducted an arduous journey on foot from the Jordan Valley to Jerusalem, accompanied by Turkish captives. Many of the soldiers fell ill with fever and Shmuel among them. On October 14, 1918, he died of his illness and was put to rest in the British military cemetery on Mount Scopus, where his name was commemorated at the “Soldiers’ House” in Avihail, in the Yizkor book of the Jabotinsky Institute, “With the Jewish Battalions in Palestine”