Levi, Lewis

During the First World War Levi volunteered in England for the Jewish Legion – the 38th regiment of the King’s Platoons. During his service, he rose to the rank of lieutenant. He arrived with the battalion to Palestine to participate in the conquest of the Turks. Lewis fought in the battles in the hills of Nablus, and then, when the battalion was in the Jordan Valley and caught the line in the Wadi Malha. On 22 Elul, 28.8.1918, he went on a patrol, was ambushed, hurt and killed. His burial place is unknown. His name is commemorated on a memorial monument in the British Military Cemetery on Mount Scopus in Jerusalem.