The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-12-12
BRITISH MAY RAISE
JEWISH REGIMENTS
Plan to Have Army Authori-
ties Take Step Meets With
Opposition.
ONE SUCH NOW
.spscio, co,,espondencs 70 rns Sos.

speCt0t OFFeSpOVoeNcs ~ "
LONDON. Nov. ga movement has
been started 90 induce the British army
authorities to authorize tho formation OF
Jewish REGIMENTS. TO be incorporated IN
the British army. The scheme has a
great number OF supporters. but II has
| met also with considerable opposition.
Many members OF the AnGlo-JGwish
community object to the creation OF any
specifically Jewish regiments on the
ground that there IL no more reason for
them than for Roman Catholic or Meth
odist regiments.
Among the British forces there Is one
regiment recruited entirely among the
Jews, the Zion Mule Corps. Most OF It's
members are refugees from Palestine.
but many are residents OF Egypt. This
regiment has been praised In dispatches
on several occasions. and I've OF its men
have gained the Distinguished Service
Medal.
Those who are opposing the mowenssnt
point out that Jew are already serving
In the armies OF all the beiligersnts under
the fiags Of the various countries TO
which they ~ allegiance.
Foreign Jews in England represent. II
IL estimated. about 80 per cent. Of those
who are OF military age. but despite this
fact the War Office has repeatedly re-
fused To sanction the creation Of a spe-
cial Jewish Legion.
There could be no better illustration
OF the share that Anglo-Jewry Is taking
In the work Of the British armies tina
the remarkable list. published In the
Mdrylcbone Record. OF thirty-nine MEM
bers Of one Jewish family tBeddin&ton).
who. with the exception OF one who a
been killed. are at present on active
service. This list Is rs foiivws:
Lieut. Col. Claude Beddlngton west.
moreland and Cumberland Yeomanry).
Lieut.. w. Beddineton WESTMINSTER
Dragoons). Lieut.. Hugh BeddinSton
Or. F. A.. Major Frank BsddinGton
(Royai irish Rhes). Capt. J. Bedding
ton yorkshire Light Infantry. Lieut..
r. Bedd!ngton Kings Royal Rihesl.
VCapt. Edward Beddington tSixteenth
Lancers). Lieut.. Eric Bauman tRoyai
Naval Flying Corpe). Capt. A. Bausnan
IS. StafYs. Regtment). fAeut. Aubrey
Valley (Royai Fus!iiers). Capt. Basil
Ieverson (North Lancasfise Regimsnk).
Lieut.. Vincent selisrnan a. o. CO.
Lieut.. Walter Behrens (R Az. lieut..
Edward Behrens OR. A.. Lieut.. Richard
Montagn CIampshire ReG1nnent). Lieut..
C. VI. Samuel Lancashire Flsiiierel.
Lieut.. W. Levy "a. 8. Co. Lieut.. H
Levy "a. s. c.. Lieut.. W. Seha%-Mon.
~texiore Fifth Lancers>. CApt. T. n.
Sebag- Montehore (R. A.. Capt. r. NJ.
Sebas- Montehore ,Royal a Kent
Mounted Rines), Lieut.. Jack Sebag-
Montefore Or. F. A., Capt. NJ. X.
Nichols Seventeenth Lancers). lieut..
Il. NJ. u. Nichols toueen's Royal West
Surrey Hegiment). Lieut.. w. II. NJ.
Nichols twentieth Hussars). Second
Lieut.. William Percy HighaIn York
and Lancashire Regiment). Second Lieut..
Ronald Harry Higham (Royal Welsh
Fusiliers). second Lieut.. Eric edward
Higham U>onJon Rife Br!&nde). Lieut..
Frank David Higham (Royal West Sur
rcy). Walter Ernest Hisham (cadet.
Keyham College,. Capt. Charles David
Green eleventh Welsh Resiment), Ser
ond Lieut.. Clarence Herbert Hart Bed
fordshtre Regiment. Private Vivian
David Hart (Inns Of curt o. Il. c..
Reginald Leon (French Ambulance).
Lieut.. Leonard Nethesdaie walford
Twelfth County Of London Regtment).
Second Lieut.. Henry Howard Walford
"a. s. c.. Frank Simons (mOtor ma
chine gunner. Private William Simons
(Second Kings Liverpool Resfment).
and Second Lieut.. l.. Lewis (King's
Royal Rines).