Allison, Paul

Paul was a sailor on the ship “Mount Zion”. With the outbreak of World War II, “Mount Zion” was added to the British merchant fleet and sailed between the British ports and the Mediterranean ports. In 1940 she took part in an effort to break through the naval blockade that the German submarines had taken over Britain and passed through the Atlantic convoys. On August 18, 1940, when the ship “Mount Zion” was on its way from Britain to the United States, it was hit by a German submarine and descended to the depths. Together with it, 33 sailors drowned, 17 of them from Palestine and Paul among them.