1. Samuel George Montague Nathan was an English soldier who served in the British Army during World War I, the Royal Irish Constabulary's Auxiliary Division during the Anglo-Irish War and the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War.
15 Facts About George Nathan
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George Nathan later became Chief of Staff of the XV International Brigade and was killed in action on 16 July 1937 at the Battle of Brunete.
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Samuel George Montague Nathan was born in Hackney, London in 1895.
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George Nathan's father was Jewish and the Nathans had been settled in England since the 18th century.
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George Nathan's mother was an Englishwoman and was a Christian.
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George Nathan himself was baptised into the Church of England at St Mark's, Bow Street on 24 January 1897.
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George Nathan rose from private to company sergeant major and "after three years and 334 days in the service, he was commissioned in the field on 9 April 1917" to become "the only Jewish officer in the Brigade of Guards".
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In 1920, George Nathan was discharged from the Royal Warwickshire Regiment.
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George Nathan was ordered to return to Dublin on 30 April 1921 and left the Auxiliary Division on 2 May 1921, returning to London.
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George Nathan worked a number of jobs, such as being a doorman for Peter Jones, but was fired after trying to form a trade union.
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George Nathan briefly rejoined the Army as a private in the Royal Fusiliers but was discharged with ignominy after a Court Martial on 25 May 1926.
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George Nathan traveled to Halifax, Nova Scotia in February 1928, intending to become a farmer, but only found work as a salesman, staying in Canada for some years.
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George Nathan elected to travel to Spain in December 1936, where he joined the mostly French Marseillaise Battalion of the XIV International Brigade, as a Captain of the British Company with it.
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The tension was such that George Nathan, confronted, said to Frank Ryan and the other Irishmen that he had indeed served the Auxiliaries in County Limerick.
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The very sight of George Nathan, with his gold-tipped swagger stick, was an encouragement to his men.