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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 abducted 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 ...
British Army, East Yorkshire Regiment (The Duke of York's Own), 2nd Battalion; Associated events Jewish Revolt 1940-1948, Palestine, Second World War; Associated themes British Forces in the Middle East and Mediterranean post-1945, British Army 1945-2000, Palestine 1945-1948, Terrorism; Associated keywords Training, Terrorism; Category
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.
12 November – The Murder of the Lehi Youth: Acting on a tip from the Shubaki family, the British raid a house where Lehi youth are conducting a training exercise. Three girls and two boys ages 16-18 are killed while trying to escape. 16 November – The United Kingdom begins withdrawing its army troops from Palestine. [citation needed]
Associated places Jerusalem, Palestine; Associated events Jewish Revolt 1940-1948, Palestine, Second World War; Associated themes British Forces in the Middle East and Mediterranean post-1945, Palestine 1945-1948, Terrorism
The explosion of a second bomb at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem. The hotel housed the Military headquarters for all armed forces in Palestine as well as the offices of the Palestine Government. The attack on the hotel was the biggest blow struck against British rule in Palestine by fighters of the Jewish 'Irgun' organisation.
English: British Forces in the Middle East, 1945-1947 A corporal of the 6th Airborne Division carries a First World War Austro-Hungarian Schwarzlose machine gun from a chicken shed where part of a hidden cache of weapons was found in the Jewish settlement of Doroth near Gaza.
The British High Commissioner implemented martial law the following day in Jewish neighborhoods of Jerusalem and the Tel Aviv metropolitan area, the declaration affected civil services and governing. British soldiers arrested suspects throughout Palestine before martial law was lifted on 17 March.