Canter, Harry

He was born in 1896 in Kosova, Russia, and emigrated to London, England, where he volunteered for the Jewish Legion – the 38th Battalion of the King’s Soldiers, and participated in the battles on the way to Jericho and the Ma’abarot HaYarden. At the beginning of October 1918, the battalion conducted an arduous journey on foot from the Jordan Valley to Jerusalem, escorted by Turkish POWs, and on the way many of the soldiers fell ill, among them Harry. On the 4th of Cheshvan (October 22, 1918), he died of his illness and was put to rest in the British military cemetery on Mount Scopus. His name was commemorated at the “Soldiers’ House” in Avihail, in the Yizkor book of the Jabotinsky Institute and in the book “With the Jewish Legions in Eretz Israel”.