For Honour's Sake - The AJEX Podcast

For Honour's Sake is brought to you by AJEX The Jewish Military Association. The history of the Jewish contribution to Britain's armed forces begins at the moment of Resettlement, stretches through the Restoration, Georgian and Victorian eras, into the 20th Century, and right up until the modern day. Well over a hundred thousand Jews, from a community that has never numbered more than 400,000 have fought in all conflicts, in all places, at all levels, and in all ways. For Honour's Sake recounts these stories and speaks to those who served.

For Honour's Sake - The AJEX Podcast is a history podcast hosted by AJEX The Jewish Military Association, with 17 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

AJEX The Jewish Military Association hosts For Honour's Sake - The AJEX Podcast, a history show with 17 episodes published.

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  For Honour's Sake - The AJEX Podcast

  Cyril Shorts: the Jewish King's Own Scottish Borderer who survived the Blitz to help liberate Belgium

  Aug 17, 202628 min

  At his home in Stanmore, Cyril tells Dan of fighting through Belgium and Germany with the King's Own Scottish Borderers, including liberating the Neuengamme concentration camp network. Our host and guest also discussed growing up in Dalston and Stoke Newington amid the rise of antisemitism, surviving the Blitz (including an unexploded incendiary bomb in his bathroom), and postwar life with his beloved Letty, to whom he was married for 60 years. For more information on AJEX: https://www.ajex.org.uk/ To donate: https://www.ajex.org.uk/donate Our social media accounts can be found here: Instagram: @ajex_jma Facebook: ajexheadoffice YouTube: ajex_jma

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  Episode #9

  Stanley Roth

  Aug 11, 202647 minS2

  For more information on AJEX: https://www.ajex.org.uk/ To donate: https://www.ajex.org.uk/donate Our social media accounts can be found here: Instagram: @ajex_jma Facebook: ajexheadoffice YouTube: ajex_jma

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  Episode #8

  Neville Silver: Korean War veteran and pioneering gunner who went on to oversee construction of Britain's first motorways

  Aug 6, 202639 minS2

  Dan and Neville (probably the last British Jewish veteran of the Korean War) discuss growing up in the East Midlands, his role running soundranging operations at the front line with the Royal Artillery 1951-52, and pursuing his engineering career after demobilisation. Neville was also presented with an original silk formation insignia of the 1st Commonwealth Division, under which UK troops served in Korea. For more information on AJEX: https://www.ajex.org.uk/ To donate: https://www.ajex.org.uk/donate Our social media accounts can be found here: Instagram: @ajex_jma Facebook: ajexheadoffice YouTube: ajex_jma

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  Episode #7

  Ron Shelley: the National Serviceman who helped build AJEX and served twice as its National Chair

  Jul 29, 202645 minS2

  Dan visits the home in north London of one of his most illustrious AJEX predecessors, Ron Shelley. Ron served in the Royal Army Pay Corps during National Service, interrupting and then pursuing his career in accountancy. He remains a devoted AJEX member, one of the association's true stalwarts, and was its youngest National Chair (in the 1970s) before serving again in the role at the turn of the millenium. For more information on AJEX: https://www.ajex.org.uk/ To donate: https://www.ajex.org.uk/donate Our social media accounts can be found here: Instagram: @ajex_jma Facebook: ajexheadoffice YouTube: ajex_jma

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  Episode #5

  Barrington Black: from National Service to legal trailblazer

  Jul 13, 202648 minS2

  Dan meets Barrington Black, at his home in north London, to discuss his inspiring Great Uncle's WWI sacrifice, father's WWII service with the RMP, his own "reverse evacuation" (!) to London and then Wales, schooling in Leeds, eventually joining up with the RASC for his National Service aged 24, and making friends with Alan Bennett. Barrington went on to have a putative political career, and a highly successful law career. This included being junior counsel on the defence team of Donald Neilson, the infamous armed robber, kidnapper and murderer who was branded the "Black Panther." In 2012, he was appointed a justice of the Supreme Court of Gibraltar. For more information on AJEX: https://www.ajex.org.uk/ To donate: https://www.ajex.org.uk/donate Our social media accounts can be found here: Instagram: @ajex_jma Facebook: ajexheadoffice YouTube: ajex_jma

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