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Jewish Legion
Jewish Legion soldiers in 1919
Active
1917–1921
Country
Mandatory Palestine
Allegiance
United Kingdom
Branch
British Army
Size
5 battalions
Engagements
World War I
Sinai and Palestine campaign
Battle of Megiddo
Military unit
The Jewish Legion was an unofficial name used to refer to five battalions of the British Army's Royal Fusiliers regiment, which consisted of Jewish volunteers recruited during World War I. In 1915, the British Army raised the Zion Mule Corps, a transportation unit of Jewish volunteers, for service in the Gallipoli campaign. Two years later in August 1917, the decision was made to raise an infantry battalion of Jewish soldiers which would be integrated into an existing British Army regiment.
Eventually, due to large recruitment numbers, including Jews from Russia and the United States, five battalions were raised and integrated into the Royal Fusiliers; collectively, they were referred to as the "Jewish Legion". The new units raised were designated as the 38th, 39th, 40th, 41st and 42nd battalions of the regiment. The Jewish Legion saw action during the Sinai and Palestine campaign, where they fought at the Battle of Megiddo before being reduced to one battalion, nicknamed the "First Judaeans".
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was a Russian-born Australian Jew who served as a commander of the JewishLegion during World War I. Margolin was born on February 5, 1875 in Belgorod...
reconstitute the JewishLegion as a permanent part of the military force in Palestine. The British had dissolved the JewishLegion and separated Trans-Jordan...
1955 and his death in 1959. A Zionist from his youth, Agron joined the JewishLegion and fought in Palestine towards the end of World War I; he had come...
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Hamburg, Herbert Weichmann.[citation needed] The JewishLegion was the name for five battalions of Jewish volunteers established as the British Army's 38th...
other Israeli security forces, the pre-state Jewish underground, and the Jewish Brigade and the JewishLegion (which served alongside British forces in World...
exploit it to promote a Jewish division in the British army. For the British, the JewishLegion, was a means of recruiting Russian Jewish immigrants (who were...
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movement and political party founded in 1927 by Corneliu Zelea Codreanu as the Legion of the Archangel Michael (Legiunea Arhanghelul Mihail) or the Legionary...
the anti-Jewish pogrom in Odessa in 1905. Upon completing high school at the Hebrew Reali School in Haifa, he enlisted in the JewishLegion of the British...
strike force. During World War II the successor to the JewishLegion of World War I was the Jewish Brigade, which was joined by many Haganah fighters. During...
an entire legion, the X Fretensis, in the area. Tensions continued to build up in the wake of the Kitos War, the second large-scale Jewish insurrection...
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the JewishLegion to fight with the British against common enemies and the Zion Mule Corps was formed in 1915, considered to be the first all-Jewish military...
permission.[citation needed] Units of the Arab Legion were engaged in several battles with the Jewish forces, including the following: Attacking Ben Shemen...
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Mandatory Palestine
British Army