Frederick Kish, who served in World War II, fell while clearing mines • At his death, the Jew was of the highest rank in the British army

• Frederick Herman Kisch (1888 - 1943)

Today, 77 years ago, during World War II, he was killed in Tunisia.

Frederick Herman Kisch (1888 - 1943), a Zionist Jewish leader and military man, who at the time of his death had the highest rank in the British army. Born in Darjeeling town in India. After his family returned to England, he studied at the Jewish College in London, and later at the Royal Military Academy in Sandhurst, and was ordained to her officer. In 1909, he was posted as an officer in the British Engineer Corps in India, and was wounded three times during battles in France and Iraq.

In 1922 he came to Israel and joined the Zionist administration, and about a year later he was appointed director of the political department of the Zionist administration in Jerusalem, and later the head of the Jewish Agency's political department. Aliyah and advising the Jewish population on self-defense matters. In the Second World War he returned to serve in the British Army in North Africa. Appointed Brigadier's rank, and appointed Eighth Army Chief Engineer, until his downfall while engaged in mine clearance.