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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Atlantic Jewish Council

Town of Windsor

West Hants Historical Society

Jewish Legion Centennial Society

MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects Limited

Parks Canada

VanEssa Roberts

Jon Goldberg

Larry Freeman

Mark David

Joel Jacobson

John Orr

Naomi Rosenfeld

Jim Bremner

Robert Dimock

John Wilson