Alexander, M.

During the First World War, he lived in Edinburgh, Scotland, and volunteered for the Jewish Legion – the 39th Battalion of the King’s Rifles in the framework of the British Army. Together with his battalion he arrived in Palestine to participate in the conquest of the Turks. He fought in Jericho and in the battle for the conquest of a-Salt in Transjordan. At the beginning of October 1918, the battalion conducted an arduous journey on foot from A-Salt to Jerusalem, and many of its soldiers fell ill and the condition of the wounded worsened. Alexander’s condition was the same. At the end of the journey, on the 17th of Tevet, 20.12.1918, he died while performing his duties. He was buried in Egypt.