Sarmber, Charles

During the First World War he enlisted, in London, where he lived, to the Jewish Legion – the 38th Battalion of the King’s Rifles. Together with the battalion he arrived in Palestine to participate in the conquest of the Turks. He fought in battles on the way to Nablus and in the Jordan Valley. At the beginning of October, Colonel Paterson’s regiment conducted a difficult journey on foot from the Jordan Valley to Jerusalem, escorting Turkish prisoners. On the way, many of the soldiers fell in a fever, including Sarmber. He died of his illness on 2 Cheshvan, 8 October 1918 and was brought to eternal rest in the British military cemetery on Mount Scopus. His name was commemorated at the “Soldiers’ House” in Avihail, in the Yizkor Book of the Jabotinsky Institute and in J. Peterson’s book “With the Jewish Battalions in Palestine.”