UNIDENTIFIED SOLDIER
THREE YEARS’ LOSS OF MEMORY EFFORTS TO ESTABLISH NAME (TiJZ. Press Association—Copyright) (Rec. 1 a.m.) LONDON, l6. A watch with the initials “/WC.,” and a tattered picture of a girl named Betty, are being sent from New Zealand and may identify a former soldier, who recently was discharged from an English hospital after three years’ treatment for loss of fnemory, as Warrant Officer A. C. Kidson, of Melbourne, if he recognises them. The “Daily Herald” says that in War Office records he is just “Gunner Chrisp,” found by Field-Marshal Lord Montgomery’s men near Enfidaville in Tunisia, in May, 1943, ’ wandering in the thick of battle. He wore New Zealand flashes and a warrant officer’s badge. A doctor pieced together the soldier’s incoherent story and learned that he was blown un and captured by the Germans, who took his paybook and wallet—his only identification records. The Allied authorities combed Vftinly for three years.
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Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24982, 17 September 1946, Page 7
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