Malkin, Yosef

During the First World War he lived in Liverpool, England, and volunteered for the Jewish Legion – the 38th Regiment of King’s Rifles. Together with the battalion, he was sent to Eretz Israel in order to participate in the conquest by the Turks. He fought in battles on the way to Nablus and in the battle over the Jordan crossings. At the beginning of October 1918, 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 Yosef. On 4 Cheshvan, October 19, 1918, he died and was put to eternal rest in the Jewish cemetery “Shabtai” in Alexandria, Egypt, and his name was immortalized in J. Paterson’s book “With the Jewish Battalions in the Land of Israel.” He was 23 years old.