Jewish Brigade: Copy material [1940-1980]

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Jewish Brigade: Copy material [1940-1980]

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SNAC Resource ID: 6284166

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Jewish Infantry Brigade Group

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British Army

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The Jewish Infantry Brigade Group was a military formation of the British Army that served in Europe during the Second World War. Although the brigade was formed in 1944, some of its experienced personnel had been employed against the Axis powers in Greece, the Middle East and East Africa. More than 30,000 Palestinian Jews volunteered to serve in the British Armed Forces, 734 of whom died during the war. The brigade and its predecessors, the Palestine Regiment and the th...