I think I found the answer to my own question
-odd
last time I asked a question I had answers from as far away as Australia !
digger - you are slipping:>)
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from "The Jew in Canada", page 506. "... \
Almost every unit had its Jewish members, and in 1916, at the request of the
then Minister of Militia, General Sir Sam Hughes, a Jewish Reinforcement
Company was raised in Montreal. This task was entrusted to Isidore
Freedman, who had taken the necessary courses of instruction and had granted
a commission.
Captain Freedman was assisted in the organisazation of the
unit by Leiuts. Alex Solomon (who was killed in action), Herbert Vineberg
(who later joined the Air Force and was awarded the Distinguished Flying
Cross), Albert Freedman, Charles Lesser who served on the western Front for
a long time), and others.
The financial assistance required for this
undertaking was supplied by the leading Jews of Montreal. Over four hundred
men enlisted and after a course of training the company went overseas in
1917. From England they were sent to various Montreal units as
reinforcements, and the members acquitted themselves in the same manner as
the rest of their coreligionists who were on service. ..."
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