“Last week, from gently-heaving transports in Haifa harbor, men of Britain’s 40th Royal Marines in khaki shorts and green berets, took a last look shoreward. Alongside the transports were the aircraft carrier H.M.S. Triumph, a cruiser and five destroyers… From shore came note by note the sound of a bugler blowing Last Post.”
“When sure that the last of his command had embarked, the lone figure, Lt. General Gordon H.A. MacMillan, chief of British forces in Palestine, climbed aboard his launch and headed for the cruiser Phoebe. He was the last British Soldier to leave the Holy Land.”
The British reign over Palestine lasted 31 years.
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General Gordon H MacMillan leaves Palestine 1948British General Gordon H MacMillan boards HMS PHOEBE 1948when did the British Army leave IsraelBritish Army Exits Palestine 1948rebirth of Israel 1948Arab reaction to 1948 UN peace planUN mediator Count Folke Bernadotte in Israel1948 40th Royal Marines retreats from Palestine40th Royal Marines departs from Palestine40th Royal Marines stationed in British Palestine 1948last British Soldier to leave ISRAELlast British Soldier to leave PALESTINE 1948Re-Birth of Israel
