With the Judaeans in the Palestine Campaign
By John Henry Patterson
Categories: History
Lieutenant-Colonel John Henry Patterson's account of commanding the Jewish battalion of the Royal Fusiliers raised in the First World War to fight in Palestine. Published in 1922, it describes the unit's formation in the wake of the Balfour Declaration, the prejudice it met within the British Army, and its part in the 1918 campaign against the Ottoman Turks.