Stern, Hirsch

During the First World War he was expelled from Palestine by the Turkish authorities, and with the rest of the refugees he arrived in Alexandria, Egypt. He accepted Yosef Trumpeldor’s call and enlisted in the British Army’s “Battalion of Mule Drivers.” The battalion was sent to the Gallipoli frontier in Asia Minor and participated in a campaign aimed at taking control of the Dardanelles. During the bombardment on the 29th of Iyar (13.05.1915), he was hit by a shrapnel in the head and killed. He was laid to rest in the British military cemetery of Haji-Bashi in Gallipoli. Joseph Trumpeldor wrote in his memoirs about the circumstances of his death, and his memory was also commemorated in the book “Yizkor” of the Jabotinsky Institute and in the “Battalion House” in Avihail.