Weinberg, Wolf

During the First World War he volunteered in his hometown of London to the Jewish Legion, the 38th Battalion of the King’s Rifles. Together with his battalion, he arrived in Eretz Israel in order to participate in its conquest by the Turks. Wolf participated in the battles on the way to Nablus and in the battle for the capture of the Jordan River. In October 1918, the battalion commanded by John Patterson conducted an arduous journey from A-Salat to Jerusalem, accompanied by Turkish prisoners, and many of his soldiers fell ill. Twenty soldiers died, among them Wolf. He passed away on 22 Cheshvan, 20.10.1918, and was brought to eternal rest in the British military cemetery in Ramle. His name was commemorated in “The Book of Recognition for British Jewry 1914-1918” edited by Rabbi Michael Adler, in the book “Yizkor” published by the Jabotinsky Institute and the “Soldiers’ House” in Avihail.