Alik, Nathan

During the First World War he volunteered in London, England, where he lived, for the Jewish Legion – the 38th Battalion of the King’s Rifles within the British Army. As part of his service, the battalion arrived in Eretz Israel in order to assist in its conquest by the Turks. He fought in the hills of Shechem and in battle over the Jordan Passes. At the beginning of October 1918, the battalion conducted an arduous journey on foot from the Jordan Valley to Jerusalem, and many of the soldiers fell ill with fever and the condition of the patients worsened and they died. Among them was Nathan. On October 30, 1918, he died and was laid to rest in the British military cemetery in Ismailia, Egypt.