Hamo, Shlomo (Salomon)

Shlomo, son of Malka and Meir Hamo, was born in 1924 in Jerusalem. His father died before he was born. After graduating from school, he learned tinsmiths and frames and worked to support his mother. At the beginning of World War II, he volunteered for the British Army. He was sent to England, where he passed with the expeditionary force to France and returned with the retreating to England. He was transferred to the Mediterranean front, to Kernica and then to Greece, captured by the Germans and held captive for four and a half years. After being released from the British army, he joined the Nutras and later, in the Jerusalem Brigade, took an active part in the defense of Jerusalem. Shlomo participated in the battles of Notre-Dame, Sheikh Jarrah and the Castell, and when he assisted a wounded member in an operation near the Damascus Gate, he fell, on 2 Sivan, the 9th of June 1948. He was buried in Sheikh Badr Aleph and on 28 Elul 5710 (10.9.1950) was transferred to eternal rest in the military cemetery at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem.