Prime Minister Churchill has sent his “personal regrets” to Sir Bernard Montgomery, commander of the British Eighth Army, now fighting in Tunisia, on the loss of his “gallant chief engineer, Brigadier Frederick Kisch,” it was revealed here today by Prof. Selig Brodetsky, president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, addressing a memorial meeting for Kisch.
Churchill also asked that his sympathies be conveyed “to the sappers who Kisch led so gloriously,” Prof. Brodetsky added. Other speakers paid tribute to the late Brigadier’s activities in behalf of the Zionist cause in Palestine. Among those present at the ceremonies were representatives of the War Office, Colonial Office, Foreign Office and prominent military officials.
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