Rotman, Yaakov

During the First World War he was expelled by the Turks with many members of the Jewish community in Eretz Israel to Egypt and lived in Cairo. Yaakov accepted Joseph Trumpeldor’s call and enlisted in the British Army as part of the British Army. The battalion was sent to the Gallipoli front in Asia Minor and took part in a campaign to control the Straits of the Dardanelles. During one of the shelling he was wounded and the next day, on the 21st of Sivan (June 3, 1915), died of his wounds. He was laid to rest in Lancashire, Turkey. Joseph Trumpeldor wrote in his memoirs about the circumstances of his fall, and his memory was also commemorated in the Yizkor book of the Jabotinsky Institute and in the “House of Battalions” in Avihail.