Galinsky, Meches

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 battles on the way to Nablus and in the battle over the Jordan crossings. At the beginning of October, the battalion conducted an arduous journey on foot from the Jordan Valley to Jerusalem accompanied by Turkish prisoners. Many of the soldiers fell ill and the condition of the wounded worsened. Among them was also a customs. On 9/9/1918 he passed away and was put to rest in the British military cemetery on Mount Scopus in Jerusalem, and his name was immortalized in the book of YH Peterson “with the Jewish battalions in the Land of Israel” in the book “Yizkor” Jabotinsky and the “Brigade House” in Avihail.