Breslauer, Yaakov-Jacques Isidore

He was born in 1876 in Poland and emigrated to London, England, where he volunteered for the Jewish Legion – the 39th Battalion of the King’s Rifles, and joined the British army in order to participate in its conquest by the Turks. In the early part of October, the battalion set up a difficult journey on foot from A-Salt to Jerusalem accompanied by Turkish captives, and many of the soldiers fell ill, including Yaakov, on 7 October 1918. He died of his illness and was laid to rest in the military cemetery In Deir al-Balah.