Memorial services for Brigadier Frederick H. Kisch, killed in action in Tunisia when a land mine exploded last month, were held in the military synagogue in Tripoli, with representatives of General Montgomery and other high-ranking British officials present, it was reported here today. Units of Palestineans from every corps formed a color guard and Zionist and British flags were flown, as military chaplains delivered eulogies of Kisch, who was chief of the Engineering Corps of the famous British Eighth Army.
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