SERGT. ELLIOTT’S HONOUR
LONDON, Sept. 22. The Dailv Express correspondent with the Eighth Army reports that Sergeant Keith Elliott, New Zealand s fifth V.CJ. of this war, as saving: Do not play me up as a hero. Thank the boys rot what they did. I could not have done any of it without them. “t hardly felt the wounds, though T knew I had been hit because a velocity bullet shakes you. I ™ "otc£°nscious of pain, so I was , . on. One of our boys was knocked or er by a grenade, and I thought it was_al over for him, but he jumped up and waded in again.” , , . Sergeant Elliott’s pay-book was out by a splinter from an explosive bullc .
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXII, Issue 255, 26 September 1942, Page 5
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119SERGT. ELLIOTT’S HONOUR Manawatu Standard, Volume LXII, Issue 255, 26 September 1942, Page 5
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