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Black, Lewis

Black, Lewis

During the First World War he lived in Leeds, England, and volunteered for the Jewish Legion, the 38th Battalion of the King’s Rifles. Together with the battalion he arrived in Palestine to participate in the conquest of the Turks. He fought in the hills of Nablus and in the battle over the Jordan River. At the beginning of October 1918, the battalion conducted an arduous journey on foot from the Jordan Valley to Jerusalem, accompanied by Turkish prisoners. Many of the soldiers fell ill and the wounded, including Lewis, weakened and died. On the 11th of Cheshvan (17.10.1918), Lewis died while performing his duties and was laid to rest in the “Shabtai” Jewish cemetery in Alexandria, Egypt.

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