When good men who did great things pass into the next life, they leave an example for this one. Tom Derek Bowden was 17 when he first set foot in the land that once was – and would again be – Israel.
It was 1938 and he was stationed in Palestine under the mercurial British officer Orde Wingate, an ardent Zionist.
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