Greiman, Sam

He lived in Leeds, England, and during the First World War he volunteered for the Jewish Legion – the 38th Battalion of the King’s Rifles. Together with his battalion, he arrived in Eretz Israel in order to participate in its conquest by the Turks. The battalion commander, Levitt. Colonel Peterson, testifies that he hated war because of the cruelty involved, and opposed any form of use of force “and yet fulfilled his military duty with an innocent Lev.” He refused to leave the fighters and join the workers’ regiment in Helmia. Sam fought in the battle over the Jordan River in which he fell. On Rosh Hashanah 5709 (8.9.1918), when he was on guard duty in a front excavation in the Jordan Valley, Turkish soldiers attacked the camp and was killed, brought to eternal rest in the British military cemetery on Mount Scopus in Jerusalem, and when his widow received the announcement of his death “Unfortunately,” Patterson wrote, “we had to keep the digs always without regard for the great sanctity of one day or another, whether it was holy to the Jews or sacred to the Christians.” The circumstances of his fall are written in the book of Y. E. Patterson with “The Jewish Battalions in Eretz Israel” and his name was also immortalized in the Yizkor book of the Jabotinsky Institute and the ” Vadim “in Avihail