Blumenthal, Sam

He was born in 1890. During World War I he lived in Manchester, England, and volunteered for the Jewish Legion, 38th Battalion. 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 a difficult journey on foot from the Jordan Valley to Jerusalem, and many of the soldiers fell ill. Among them was Sam. On the 26th of Cheshvan (1/11/1918) he died in his illness and was laid to rest in the “Shabtai” Jewish cemetery in Alexandria, Egypt. He died and left behind a wife.