Cullen, Morris

He was born in 1880 in the Kiev region of Russia where he married a wife and had three children, and in 1912 immigrated to the United States and settled in Philadelphia. In World War I he responded to the call of the Zionist leaders Pinhas Rotenberg, David Ben Gurion and Yitzhak Ben Zvi, joined the 39th Battalion of the King’s Rifles, part of the British Army, and arrived in Eretz Israel in order to participate in its conquest by the Turks. He fought in Jericho and the battle for the conquest of Al-Salt in Transjordan. On the 8th of Iyar (8.5.1919), he was killed in her service, and was buried in the British military cemetery in Qantara, Egypt. His name was commemorated at the “Soldiers’ House” in Avihail.