TRIBUTE TO GENERAL KIPPENBERGER
New Zealander In English Hospital (Special Correspondent, N.Z.P.A.) (Rec. 1 a.m.) LONDON, May 8. “I am here to get new feet. They should be ready in six weeks’ time when I should feel perfectly all right to do a fighting job,” said Major-Gen-eral Howard Kippenberger, chatting at Queen Mary’s Military Hospital, Roehampton. A tribute to Major-General Kippenberger is paid by The News Chronicle, who says he dismissed his decorations as “gongs for being one of the nimblest shell dodgers in the Allied armies." Though little known in England he is “idolized by the men he commanded in Greece, Crete, North Africa and Italy." . Commenting on the incident when he was wounded and lost both his feet, Major-General Kippenberger said: “I was visiting a forward area in Cassino well up with the fighting when I felt a terrific explosion. Everything lifted around me. I must have trodden on a cleverly concealed box-mine which is known as ‘the man-killer.’ ” He said he was waiting for the day when he would be fit enough to do some sort of job in this invasion stunt.
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Southland Times, Issue 25358, 9 May 1944, Page 5
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