“GUNNER CHRISP”
EFFORT TO ESTABLISH IDENTITY ANOTHER CLUE PURSUED LONDON, Sept. 16. A watch with the initials “A.C.” and a tattered picture of a girl named Eetty, 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 memory as Warrant Officer A. C. Kidson, of Melbourne, if he recognises them. The Daily Herald says that m War Office records he is just “Gunner Chrisp,” found by Field-Marshal !■ord 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 up and captured by the Germans, who took his paybook and wallet —his only identification records.. The Allied authorities combed vainly lor three years.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 17 September 1946, Page 9
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