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Many Scottish Jews served in in the First and Second World Wars, with over a hundred killed in WWI. Even earlier, Scottish Jews also fought In the Boer War, and in 1898 a Glasgow Jewish Volunteer Association was formed in Garnethill Synagogue. Scottish Jewish women also served in the Timber Corps, Transport Command, the Women's Auxiliary Air Force, and the Auxiliary Territorial Service.

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Identity Document for Simon Michaelson from the Imperial Russian Vice Consulate, Glasgow (1915)

Michaelson Russia

Boer War Glasgow Jewish Volunteer Association dance card (1899)

Boer war dance volunteer

Isaac Hepner, Alien Registration Certificate, WW2 (1927)

Hepner alien certificate

Leaflet advertisting entertainment programme for Jewish soldiers at South Portland Street Synagogue on 24th September 1917 (1917)

soldiers war synagogue

12th October 1944: Evening Times article with photo of Field Marshall Montgomery pinning medal on Harry Moorin for services in Normandy (1944)

Moorin Normandy

War memorial, Piershill Cemetery, Edinburgh (Undated)

war memorial cemetery

Prayer Book for WW1 Jewish Sailors & Soldiers: Calendar 5678 to 5680 (1914)

Prayer war calendar

An appreciation of Glasgow Jewish Institute Hospitality Committee for reception and entertainment of HM and Allied forces during WW2 (1946)

Institute JI war Allies

Glasgow Jewish Institute Welcome Home dinner for Japanese POWs: menu and toast list (1945)

Institute JI POW Japan

Soldier's Release Book for Leonard Goldman, 25th April 1946 (1946)

Goldman release

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