Warrior for humanity

[Kiwi]

Warrior for humanity

AUSTRALIA’S oldest living Jewish digger, Major-General Paul Cullen, died at the age of 99, just five months shy of his 100th birthday, at Sydney's Montefiore Home on Wednesday morning.

Major-General Cullen, who is only the second Australian Jew to hold the title after Sir John Monash, fought for the Australian Defence Force in Palestine in 1940 against the Italian, German and French armies.

He was the first president of Austcare, a world humanitarian foundation, and from 1979-81 was president of Sydney's JewishCare, which his father, Samuel Cohen, helped establish.

Federal Association of Jewish Ex-Servicemen and Women president Wesley Browne said Major-General Cullen was a good man who will leave a great legacy.

“He was the most senior Jewish ex-serviceman in Australia, and probably the most decorated. He had a wonderful record of helping the community and was an incredible man,” Browne said.

Away from the military, he had several business and other interests, including co-founding Festival Records.

Major-General Cullen will have a military funeral at Victoria Barracks and then privately cremated on Wednesday, September 26.

Exerpt from Australian Jewish News - http://www.ajn.com.au/news/news.asp?pgID=4126

[AussieJTFer]

Australia's two most decorated war heroes were Jews! I hope Major Cullen (z'l) killed alot of germans during the war.

[newman]

Monash was the first Jew to command a whole army in 2000 years according to Rabbi Benjamin Blech.