The War Office announces that a memorial service for General Sir John Monash will be held at the Hampstead Synagogue on Tuesday at noon. Tickets are obtainable by Australians from the High Commissioner for Australia, it is stated, and by other members of the public from the Under-Secretary of State at the War Office. Rev. Dayan Gollop, Senior Jewish Chaplain to the Forces, will officiate, and buglers from the Rifle Brigade will sound the Last Post and Reveille.
ISRAEL ZANGWILL “LOOKED UPON GENERAL MONASH AS DESIGNED BY PROVIDENCE AS THE FIRST GOVERNOR OF PALESTINE”.
The report on the Australian Jewish war activities published by the Australian Y.M.C.A. at the end of the war and compiled by Lieutenant Harold Boas, who was in charge of the welfare work among the Australian Jewish soldiers, contains a great many references to General Sir John Monash, “that outstanding Jewish personality, whose name is the coping-stone of the structure which this work records-Australian Jewry’s part in the Great War”.
Among many other references in the book, there is one reporting the opening of the Australian Jewish Soldiers’ Put in London, at which Sir John Honash presided and at which the late Israel Zangwill said that “he looked upon General Monash as designed by Providence as the first Governor of Palestine”. In 1919 the Maccabeans gave a dinner in London in honour of Sir John Monash in recognition of his great services as a distinguished Jewish soldier.
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