Forces members join poignant visit to WWI battlegrounds for digital archive project

Forces personnel and a JLGB member were among a group of 20 people who visited First World War sites in Ypres.

The trip was organised by We Were There Too, a Lottery-funded digital resource on the contribution of London Jews to the war, both in battle and on the home front.

Rabbi Reuben Livingstone, senior Jewish chaplain to HM Armed Forces, was among the group. He said it was important to remember how Jewish immigrants to Britain volunteered to fight in 1914.

“And most of those fighting when Britain first went to war were volunteers because conscription had not kicked in yet.”