Trissit, Edward

During the First World War he volunteered in England for the Jewish Legion – the 39th Battalion of the King’s Rifles – within the framework of the British Army. Together with his battalion he arrived in Palestine to participate in the conquest of the Turks. Shortly after arriving in Israel on 21 Elul, August 29, 1918, he fell in the line of duty. He was laid to rest at the British military cemetery in Qantara, Egypt. . His name was immortalized in the Yizkor Book of the Jabotinsky Institute and the “Soldiers’ House” in Avihail. He was 30 years old when he fell.