Word: kisch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Killed in Action. Brigadier Frederick Hermann Kisch, 64, the British Eighth Army's chief engineer, who built Montgomery's El Alamein fortifications; by a mine explosion; near Sousse, Tunisia. Born in British India, he attended the Royal Military Academy in England, was thrice decorated for bravery in World War I, later served for nine years as chairman of Palestine's Zionist Executive Committee in the negotiations with Britain...