On Sept. 19, 1918, at the Battle of Arara (northern Palestine), Legion Armenienne (LA) defeated a combined German-Turkish forces to spur the final victorious campaign of the Allies in the Middle East. The LA was an all-voluntary regiment for 4,500 Armenian soldiers. In 1926 the bodies of the Armenian legionnaires killed at Arara were transferred to the Sourp Prgich Cemetery, on Mount Zion, next to Jerusalem’s Armenian Quarter.
 

On Sept. 19, 1918, at the Battle of Arara (northern Palestine), Legion Armenienne (LA) defeated a combined German-Turkish forces to spur the final victorious campaign of the Allies in the Middle East. The LA was an all-voluntary regiment for 4,500 Armenian soldiers. In 1926 the bodies of the Armenian legionnaires killed at Arara were transferred to the Sourp Prgich Cemetery, on Mount Zion, next to Jerusalem’s Armenian Quarter.