Who knew? Kelly Shiers of the Halifax Chronicle Herald of a few days ago
reports on the Jewish Legion, including future Israeli prime minister David Ben-Gurion, that trained at Windsor, Nova Scotia, under British Army auspices in 1918
“In Windsor, one of the great dreams of my life — to serve as a soldier in a Jewish Unit to fight for the liberation of the Land of Israel (as we always called Palestine) — became a reality,” Ben-Gurion wrote in a letter to Windsor’s mayor three years after he left the prime minister’s job.
Hat tip to Mark Reynolds's father. Photo: Chronicle-Herald.
