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Brent, David Joseph

Brent, David Joseph

Son of Lewis. During the First World War he lived in Manchester, England, and volunteered for the Jewish Legion – the 39th Battalion of the King’s Rifles in the framework of the British Army. Together with the battalion, he was sent to Palestine to participate in the conquest of the Turks. He fought at the front of Jericho and in 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. Among them was David. On the 26th of Cheshvan (1/11/1918), he died while performing his duties and was laid to rest in the British military cemetery in Cairo, Egypt.

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