“THANK THE BOYS”
SERGEANT ELLIOTT ON V.C. AWARD COULD NOT HAVE DONE IT WITHOUT THEM. WOUNDS HARDLY FELT. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, September 22. The “Daily Express” correspondent with the Eighth Army reports Sergeant Keith Elliott', New Zealand’s fifth V.C. of this war, as saying: “Do not play me up as a hero. Thank the boys for what they did. I could not have done any of it without them. • “I hardly felt the wounds, though I knew I had been hit because a velocity bullet shakes you. I was not conscious of pain, so I was able to carry on. One of our boys was knocked over by a grenade, and 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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Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 September 1942, Page 3
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