I didn’t read all of that article but found some parts were a bit sour grapes to say the least. I think the author was american. All servicemen were required to state their religion (or agnostic)and this appeared on ones documents and “dog tags”. The ones claiming Agnostic to get off church parades usually ended doing cookhouse duties. Unless one conformed to ones religion ridgidly most of their comrades wouldn’t know or care what one’s religion was. I can also not blame any Jewish serviceman for not wanting his religion known if he was in danger of falling into German hands, so there must be many circumstances where Jewish endeavor wasn’t recorded as such.
Society was different then and one shouldn’t judge it through modern eyes. The officer class was bad enough still from the sixties through to the eighties.
The single Israeli listed at the end of the B of B film is probably that he came from British Mandated Palestine and not a UK national of Jewish origins and for modern audiences Israel was shown as the country.
John
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