Suvorinsky, Philip

During the First World War, he volunteered in London, England, where he lived, for 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 participated in battles on the way to Nablus and in the battle over the Jordan crossings. At the beginning of October 1918, the battalion conducted an arduous journey on foot from the Jordan Valley to Jerusalem accompanied by Turkish captives. Many of the soldiers fell sick, including Philip. He died of his illness on the 13 Cheshvan (19.10.1918). His name was immortalized in the “Soldiers’ House” in Avihail, in the Yizkor book of the Jabotinsky Institute and in YH. Peterson “with the Jewish Battalions in Palestine.” An investigation conducted in 2017 found that his resting place was in a Jewish cemetery in Alexandria, Egypt. Grave Location 14. He died at the age of 21.