Frieder, Morris

During the First World War, he volunteered in London, England, where he lived, for the Jewish Legion – the 38th Battalion of the King’s Rifles in the framework of the British Army, together with the battalion, to participate in its conquest by the Turks. He fought in battles on the way to Nablus and in the battle over the Jordan crossings. At the beginning of October 1918 he made a difficult journey on foot from Jericho to Jerusalem, and many fell ill with fever and the condition of the wounded worsened. Among them was Morris. On the 5th of Kislev, 1918, he died in the course of his mission, his name was immortalized in J. Peterson’s book “With the Jewish Battalions in Eretz Israel” at the “Soldiers’ House” in Avihail, 1918, edited by Rabbi Michael Adler and in the book “Yizkor” by the Jabotinsky Institute, in an investigation conducted in 2017 found to be resting in Qantara, Egypt.