Freeman, Nathan

During the First World War, he volunteered in London, where he lived, for the Jewish Legion – the 38th Battalion of the King’s Rifles. Together with the battalion he arrived in Palestine to participate in the conquest of the Turks. He participated in battles on the way to Nablus and in the battle over the Jordan crossings. At the beginning of October 1918, the battalion conducted an arduous journey on foot from the Jordan Valley to Jerusalem. Many of the soldiers fell ill, including Nathan. He fell ill and died of his illness on 21 Cheshvan, 27.10.1918, and was brought to eternal rest in the British military cemetery in Deir el-Balah. His name was immortalized in the book “Yizkor” of the Jabotinsky Institute, at the “Soldiers’ House” in Avihail, and in the book by Yeh. Peterson “With the Jewish Battalions in Eretz Israel”.