“GUNNER CHRISP’S” IDENTITY
FORMER ROYAL AIR FORCE MAN (P.A.) AUCKLAND, September 1. t More than five years after he was picked up in Tunisia in New Zealand Army uniform, “Gunner Chrisp,” who lost his memory, has been identified as George Wallace, a former leading aircraftman in the Royal Air Force. At one time thought by a New Zealand woman to be her missing husband and later suspected of being a spy in New Zealand uniform. Wallace Was the cause of painstaking inquiries by English and New Zealand military and police authorities. His identity has now been established by the War Office in London. Wallace was found wandering in a state of exhaustion among British troops in the Enfidaville area in Tunisia on May 5, 1943. He was taken to No. 41 British Hospital at el Kantara for psychiatric treatment, and the inquiries about “Gunner Chrisp,” as his New Zealand paybook described him, were begun. He was for a long time thought to be a New Zealander because he carried a notebook filled with data about farming and other activities in New Zealand. Two years later he was sent to England as a medical case suffering from loss of memory.
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Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25589, 2 September 1948, Page 3
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