Oliver Kisch

Captain Oliver Cecil Kisch was an English officer of the British Army who died during the Second World War.
He was born on 27 May 1916,Ancestry.com. 1939 England and Wales Register [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2018. in Kensington, a twin son of Sir Cecil Herman, a civil servant in India, and Myra Hannah Kisch (née Adler). Kisch was educated at Eton, where he edited the school newspaper, before studying classics and law at Trinity College. In 1938, he received the Browne medal for his Greek epigram. After securing a scholarship at Lincoln Inn, Kisch was called to the bar in 1940.The Times (49753), p. 7: "Fallen Officers". 14 January 1944.
Kisch was commissioned in the Royal Signals on 10 May 1941,The London Gazette (35167), p. 2879. 20 May 1941, thegazette.co.uk. Retrieved 15 September 2015. and went on to serve with Eastern Command and 13 Air Formation Signals. He died on 17 June 1943 while a passenger on board the troopship SS Yoma, torpedoed by the German U-boat U-81 off the coast of Libya. His obituary stated that Kisch had remained on board the sinking vessel to assist in the evacuation. His uncle, Brigadier Frederick Kisch, had been killed in April 1943.
He has no known grave and is commemorated by the Brookwood Memorial.
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==References==
*Ancestry.co.uk.
*Kisch, Oliver Cecil, cwgc.org. Retrieved 15 September 2015.
Category:1916 births
Category:1943 deaths
Category:British military personnel
Category:British Army
Category:British people of Jewish descent
Category:Burial Unknown
Category:Brookwood Memorial
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