Marx, Roberts (Schleifstein, Pinkus)

Son of Paula and Aaron Schleifstein. Born in 1895 with the name of Schleifstein Pincus, he lived in London, England, where he fought in the British army, fought in France and many other fronts and finally reached the front of Eretz Israel, where he participated in the campaign to conquer the land from the Turks. Roberts fought in the battle of Um-a-Shurt in the Jordan Valley and took part in a night patrol to the Turkish positions at the A-Shoret crossing, and was wounded in mortal wounds with his friend, Private Gordon. In the same day, on the 20 Elul, 28th of August 1918, Roberts died of his wounds and was brought to rest at the British military cemetery on Mount Scopus. The circumstances of his downfall are written in the book “With the Jewish Battalions in Eretz Israel” Peterson. His name was also immortalized in the Yizkor book of the Jabotinsky Institute and in the “Soldiers’ House” in Avihail.