Arab revolt in Palestine Second World War Frederick Hermann Kisch, CB, CBE, DSO (23 August 1888 – 7 April 1943) was a decorated British Army officer and Zionist leader.

[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.

[1] After some time, Kisch family moved back to England, where Frederick attended Clifton College and subsequently the Royal Military Academy Woolwich.

Due to his wounds, he was declared temporarily unfit for frontline service and was subsequently transferred to the Military Intelligence Corps, where he served for the rest of the war.

He 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.