Post on 09-Jun-2018
The Training of the Jewish Legion at
Fort Edward during the First World War
Sara Beanlands
Royal United Services Institute
May 30, 2018
[Mr. Robert Dimmock; West Hants Historical Society]
David Ben-Gurion 1886-1973
Vladimir Ze’ev Jabotinsky 1880-1940 Joseph Trumpeldor 1880-1920
Yitzhak Ben-Zvi and David Ben-Gurion, 1918
Jewish Legion volunteers bid farewell
D.A.R. Station, Windsor, Nova Scotia, 1907
Fort Edward, ca. 1910[NSA Photo: Army: Forts: E (14)]
Jewish Legion Volunteers, Halifax, 1918[www.jewishpubliclibrary.org]
Major John Walkley, Windsor, March, 1918[www.jewishpubliclibrary.org]
Fort Edward at Windsor, ca. 1922, showing Blockhouse and Officer’s Quarters [NSA Photo: Army: Forts E]
BEF Camp, May 25, 1918, Fort Edward [NSA Ellen Wainwright fonds, 1996-101 No.2]
Private David Ben-Gurion, 1918[Army Museum, Halifax Citadel]
Major W.F.D. Bremner
Joseph Bernbaum, Toronto Harry Brookman, Winnipeg Benjamin Chaitman, Montreal
Canadian Volunteers of the 39th Battalion[Jewish Public Library]
The Hants Journal, September 18, 1918
American and Canadian Jewish volunteers of the 39th Battalion Windsor, Nova scotia, April, 1918
Jewish Legion at Windsor, Nova Scotia, prior to departure for England, First World War[Ontario Jewish Archives]
Crown Hill Barracks
39th Battalion in Palestine
April 14, 2016Photo Credit: Tim Reed
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Jewish Legion at Fort Edward
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THANK YOU
Atlantic Jewish Council
Town of Windsor
West Hants Historical Society
Jewish Legion Centennial Society
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