Hoppin, Lewis

Son of Bluma and Avraham Hirsch. Born in 1889 in Riga, Latvia, he emigrated to London, where he married, and in the First World War he volunteered for the Jewish Legion – the 39th Regiment of the King’s Rifles and was sent to Palestine to participate in the conquest of the Turks. He fought on the Jericho front and in the battle for the conquest of A-Salt in Transjordan, and in early October the battalion made a difficult journey on foot from A-Salt to Jerusalem, and many of his soldiers fell ill with a fever. Lewis died on 17 Cheshvan, 19.10.1918, and was laid to rest in the British military cemetery in Ramle. He left a wife and a daughter.