Zimmerman, Morris

He was born in 1885 and volunteered in England, where he lived, in the British regiment, the 39th regiment of the King’s Rifles, together with the Gdud, in order to participate in the conquest by the Turks. In October 1918, the battalion conducted an exhausting journey on foot from A-Salt to Jerusalem, and many of the soldiers fell ill, among them Morris. He died on 2 Cheshvan, 8 October 1918 and was brought to rest in the British military cemetery on Mount Scopus. He left a family in England, parents in Basket and a wife in Birmingham. His three brothers also fell in the ranks of the British army during the First World War. His name was immortalized in the book “Yizkor” of the Jabotinsky Institute, in “The Book of Recognition for British Jewry 1914-1918” edited by Rabbi Michael Adler, and in the “House of Legions” in Avihail.