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The Sergeants affair (Hebrew: פרשת הסרג'נטים) was an incident that took place in July 1947 during Jewish insurgency in Mandatory Palestine, in which the Jewish underground group Irgun kidnapped two British Army Intelligence Corps NCOs, Sergeant Clifford Martin and Sergeant Mervyn Paice, and threatened to hang them if the death sentences passed on three Irgun militants—Avshalom ...
English: British Forces in the Middle East, 1945-1947 Brigadier Johnson, who commanded 'Operation Polly' (the evacuation of all non-essential personnel from Palestine) has a word with an evacuee who is about to leave Lydda station on the last evacuation train for Egypt.
Since the end of the Second World War, the campaign in the British Mandate of Palestine had cost the British 338 dead. [80] The numbers for the 6th Airborne Division between October 1945 and April 1948 were fifty-eight men dead and 236 wounded due to enemy action, a further ninety-nine men died, from causes not associated with a hostile act. [81]
Jewish Revolt 1940-1948, Palestine, Second World War Associated themes British Forces in the Middle East and Mediterranean post-1945, Airborne Forces, British Army 1945-2000, Palestine 1945-1948, Terrorism
UN 1947 partition plan for Palestine. 7 January – The founding of the kibbutz Mivtahim. 26 January – Irgun members kidnap a British intelligence officer two days before the planned execution date of the Irgun member Dov Gruner. 27 January – Irgun members kidnap the British President of the district court of Tel Aviv.
In April 1947 the issue was formally referred to the UN. By this time over 100,000 British soldiers were stationed in Palestine. Referral to the UN led to a period of uncertainty over Palestine's future. A United Nations committee, the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP) was sent to investigate the problem. On August 31, 1947 ...
The British administrative headquarters for Mandatory Palestine, housed in the southern wing [1] of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, were bombed in a terrorist attack [2] [3] on 22 July 1946, by the militant right-wing [4] Zionist underground organization Irgun during the Jewish insurgency.
6 Palestine police (2 British, 4 Arabs) killed in bombing of railway line. [39] 1947, March 1 17 British officers killed, during bombing of the Goldschmidt Officer's Club. [40] 1947, March 12 1 British soldier killed during the attack on Schneller Camp. [40] 1947, June 18