The Zionists @ Gallipoli - Who knew?

Not me.  I just stumbled across this in the New York Times archive;  the fact that there was a Zion Mule Corps at Gallipoli.  Part of the Royal Fusiliers.

This from wikipedia.

This from diggerhistory2.

ADDED 1:

I perused Les Carlyon's excellent and best selling popular history of Gallipoli and found a very brief mention of the Zion Mule Corps on pages 246 - 247. (Paperback edition)

ADDED 2: 

Eminent military historian Brett Holman has mentioned in the comments section below that Rachel J. K. Grace has a now-inactive blog about theJewish Legion of WWI here;

and that her 2006 M.A. Thesis at the Florida State  University  The Obligation of Service: The Jewish Chronicle and the Formation of the Jewish Legion During World War I is available at Google Cache here.

Comments

[Brett]

There's a blog on the Jewish Legion, though unfortunately it is dormant and presumably won't be revived, as the owner finished her MA and moved to Estonia! However, her dissertation is also online.

http://jewishlegion.wordpress.com/

[Bob Meade]

Thanks Brett, for the pointer to that blog and thesis.