Great Britain. Army. Jewish Legion

LC control no.	nb2006014259
Corporate name heading	Great Britain. Army. Jewish Legion *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Great Britain. Army. Royal Fusiliers. Jewish Legion Great Britain. Army. Royal Fusiliers. Battalion, 38th Great Britain. Army. Royal Fusiliers. Battalion, 39th Great Britain. Army. Royal Fusiliers. Battalion, 40th Great Britain. Army. Zion Mule Corps Hagdud Ha'ivri Gdud Ha'ivri Jewish Legion Zion Mule Corps גדוד העברי
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Found in	Report of Conference between representatives of the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine and the Commander and two other representatives of the Irgun Zvai Leumi, 1947: t.p. (The Jewish Legion) Zionism and Israel Information Center WWW site (Jewish Legion; Hagdud Ha'ivri, Gdud Ha'ivri) Factbites WWW site (Jewish Legion, also known as the Zion Mule Corps of the British Army, fought in World War I against the Ottoman Empire) Jewish Virtual Library WWW site (Military formation of Jewish volunteers in World War I who fought in the British Army for the liberation of Eretz Yisrael from Turkish rule; On August 1917 the first unit was officially designated as the 38th Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers. It included British volunteers, members of the former Zion Mule Corps and a large number of Russian Jews. On April 1918, it was joined by the 39th Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers, more than 50 percent of whom were American volunteers) Encyc. Judaica, c1971 (Jewish Legion; in 1919 battalions 38-40th of the Royal Fusiliers consisted of some 5000 Jews)
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