1. Frederick Kisch was born to a British-Jewish family in the town of Darjeeling, British Empire in India, on 23 August 1888, where his father Michael was head of the Indian Postal Service.
12 Facts About Frederick Kisch
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Frederick Kisch was decorated by the government of France with the Croix de guerre with Palm.
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Frederick Kisch served as general staff officer to General Sir George Macdonogh.
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Frederick Kisch was appointed a member of the British delegation to the 1919 Paris Peace Conference.
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Frederick Kisch joined the Zionist Organization in 1922, where he headed the political department until being succeeded by Chaim Arlosoroff.
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Frederick Kisch served as Zionist Commission head for the Jerusalem region between 1923 and 1931.
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Frederick Kisch was awarded the Order of Wen-Hu by the Republic of China in 1921.
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Frederick Kisch was recalled to active service in 1939 at the outbreak of the Second World War.
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Frederick Kisch was promoted to the rank of brigadier and assigned to the British Eighth Army, where he became commanding officer of the Royal Engineers in the North African Campaign.
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Frederick Kisch was killed in Tunisia on 7 April 1943 when he stepped on a landmine during the Battle of Wadi Akarit.
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Frederick Kisch had been organising reconstruction of a bridge, essential to the Allied advance.
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Frederick Kisch is buried at Enfidaville War Cemetery in Tunisia.