Trachtenberg, Mendel
Son of Ava and Isidore Mendel. Born in 1882, he lived in London, where he married Jenny Pauline and graduated from Cambridge University. He volunteered for the Jewish Legion – the 39th Battalion of the King’s Soldiers, and his battalion arrived in Palestine to participate. In the beginning of October 1918, the battalion conducted an arduous journey from A-Salat to Jerusalem, where many of the soldiers fell ill and Mendel was among them. On 6 Cheshvan, on the 12 th of October, 1918, Mendel died of his illness and was brought to rest at the British military cemetery on Mount Scopus in Jerusalem. He left a wife in London. His name was immortalized in the Jewish Brigade House in Avihail and in the Yizkor book of the Jabotinsky Institute.