NEW ZEALAND V.C.
(Rec. 10.5 p.m.) LONDON, Sept. 25. The Daily Express correspondent with the Bth Army reports Sergeant Keith Elliott, V.C., as saying: “Do not play me up as a hero. Thank the boys for what they didI could not have done any of it without them. I hardly felt my wounds, although I knew I had been hit because the velocity of the bullet shakes you. I was not conscious to pain, so I was able to carry on. One of our boys was knocked over by a grenade. I thought it was all over for him, but he jumped up and waded in again.” Sergeant Elliott’s paybook was cut by a splinter from an explosive bullet.
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Southland Times, Issue 24859, 26 September 1942, Page 5
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119NEW ZEALAND V.C. Southland Times, Issue 24859, 26 September 1942, Page 5
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