Friday, June 14, 1957 V, Story of a Mode Fighting Israel Dates Back to the Jewish. Legion Sy DR. HIRSCH L. GORDON come, the legend of the march- (Former national commander of the ing Jewish Legions will for- American Palesline Jewish Legion) ever remain a source of courage (An AJP Feature) 1957 marks the 42nd anniver- and pride. Since Berek Joselowicz, who sary of the first Jewish Legion raised a Jewish cavalry regi- —the Zion Mule Corps—formed ment under Kosciusko to fight in Alexandria, Egypt, which saw against Russia in 1794, no group service with the British Ex- of Jews was ever organized in peditionary Forces in the Dar- a special armed unit for war danelles. It also marks the 39th duty. On August. 3, 1914, the year since the first group of Jews of Paris petitioned in vain Jewish volunteers left the to organize a Jewish Battalion United States for active service in the Foreign Legion. Jewish in Palestine as Battalions of clergymen and assimilationists the Royal Fusiliers. also caused the abandonment of To us `vho marched under the "Jewish Battalions" idea in the victorious banners of Israel England in November, 1914. It in the conquest of the Holy was destined that Egypt of Land, and survived to celebrate 3300 years ago witnessed these anniversaries, those dates 600,000 arms-bearing J e - w s denote the most sacred eras in march out across the Red Sea the span of our lives, but to our to conquer the land of their people, in the generations • to forefathers from the kinglets of Canaan, should witness the departure of another mass of fighting Jews bound for the conquest of their ancient home- land from the Ottomans. When Russia declared war on Turkey on Nov. 3, 1914, I was one of the 10,000 Russian Jews residing in Palestine who thus became enemy aliens. 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Jabotinsky's fiery appeal for the formation of a Jewish Le- gion to fight in Palestine was enthusiastically received. Jabo- tinsky, Trumpeldor and I signed up for that legion immediately. Five-hundred more enlisted in a few trays in the barracks of Gabari, Mafrujah, Cinema and Governora. On March 19, Lt. Col. I. H. Patterson was put in command of the volunteers. On April 17, they 1 e f t on board the two ships—Hymettus and Anglo-Egyptian—not f o r Palestine, as promised, but for Gallipoli. There they became a part of the 29th Division. In September 300 more Jewish volunteers arrived from Egypt. The first Jewish Legion—The Zion Mule Corps—was assigned to transport duty on the open battlefields, continuously ex- posed to the enemies' fire with no means of defense. Here is what the Commander-in-Chief wrote of them: "The officers and rank and file have shown great courage in taking water supplies and ammunition up to the fighting line under fire." Capt. Trumpeldor was their fearless leader. December 8, 1915, the evacua- tion of Allied forces of Galli- poli began, and by Jan. 8, 1916 it was complete. The first Jew- ish Legion that played an im- portant role in the gigantic Allied attempt to break through the mightiest fortifications on earth—was disbanded, but the saga of its achievements con- tinued to burn bright in the hearts of Jewish youth the world over. Later, Lt. Col. Patterson, then in command of the Dublin Fu- siliers at Gurragh, was called to London by the War Office to take charge of another Jewish Legion in the process of forma- tion. In spite of the opposition of many leading Jews, the for- mation of a Jewish Legion was officially announced in the Lon- don Gazette of Aug. 23, 1917. This is the birthday of the Sec- ond Jewish Legion. Several days later a Jewish delegation o f assimilationists succeeded in obtaining from the War Office an assurance that the Jewish armed forces would not be given any Jewish in- signia or name, and that they would be known as the Royal Fusiliers, and by the number of their Battalions. The first Jewish unit, known as the 38th Battalion, with an initial strength of 900, left for Palestine, Feb. 5, 1918, under Lt. Col. Pattersons' command. The next one, the 39th, under Lt. Col. Lazar Margolin, reach- ed Egypt April 30 with 600 men and the last, the 40th, un- der the command of Lt. Col. F. D. Samuels, with 1,100 volun- teers, followed in August. These Battalions were soon to swell up with thousands of Jewish volunteers who enlisted in the Jewish Legion in the United States and Canada. The Legion idea even reached Russia then under the Keren- sky regime. Though hunted and destroyed wherever found by the Bolsheviks, as many as 5,000 reached Vladivostok and Khar- bin on their way to England and thence to Palestine. Their lead- ers, Pinchas RuthenLerg and Capt. Trumpeldor, were both caught and imprisoned. The Jewish Battalions had an opportunity to be cast into the final, decisive and most ferocious combats on the Palestine front. The ancient capital Amman w a s con- quered March 27. On Sept. 19, the mighty at- tack began. In three days the Turkish spine was broken, 80,000 prisoners and loads of ammuni- tion were taken. Ten days later 10,000 Turks surrendered at Gaza. The whole of Palestine was wrested away. On Oct. 31 Turkey surrendered. With the cessation of formal hostilities, the Jewish Legions were left to patrol Palestine and Syria seething with unrest. Yes, in more ways than one Oaktoit Manor's out in front! Vacation with us and see for yourself. P.S. 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