Redlich, Gershon

He was born in 1892 in Lodz, Poland, and immigrated to Eretz Israel in 1910. He first lived in Rishon Letzion and later in Petach Tikva, and at the beginning of the First World War he was deported by the Turks as many Jews He volunteered for the Legion of Mule Drivers and fought in front of Gallipoli when the battalion was deployed to London, England, where he volunteered for the Jewish Legion – the 38th Regiment of the King’s Soldiers and went up to the Land of Israel in order to participate in the conquest from the Turks. He fought in battles on the way to Nablus and in the Jordan Valley. He was an escort from the Jordan Valley to Jerusalem, accompanied by Turkish captives, and many of the soldiers fell ill, including Gershon. On the day of 8 Cheshvan (14.10.1918), he died. His name was immortalized in the “Soldiers’ House” in Avihail, and in “With the Jewish Battalions in Eretz Israel”.