Quote Originally Posted by Mike S View Post
As a foot note: Like the "brother against brother" of many other wars, I wonder if these particular Glasgow Jewish soldiers in the WWI photo had to go up against the many German regiments staffed with Jewish/German soldiers in the first world war? But then, that is another topic.
They wouldn't have had to be German. My grandfather served in the Austro-Hungarian army during that war, so he could very well have been involved in combat with his co-religionists in the Scottish forces.