Elonowitz, Lewis

During the First World War, he volunteered in London, England, where he lived, for the Jewish Legion – the 38th Battalion of the King’s Slugs. 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. On the 29th of Cheshvan 5619 (October 29, 1918) he fell while fulfilling his duties and was laid to rest at the British military cemetery in Damascus, Syria. His name was immortalized in “The Book of Recognition for British Jewry 1914-1918” edited by Rabbi Michael Adler, in the battalion headquarters in Avihail, in the Yizkor book of the Jabotinsky Institute and in YH. Peterson “with the Jewish Battalions in Palestine.” An investigation conducted in 2017 revealed that his resting place was located in the Jewish cemetery in Damascus, Syria. Grading Location Tomb A.60 Rank Private.