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[[Major-General]] '''Sir Howard Kippenberger''', [[Order of the British Empire|KBE]] [[Order of the Bath|CB]] [[Distinguished Service Order|DSO]] [[Territorial Decoration|ED]], ([[28 January]] [[1897]] [[5 May]] [[1957]]). |
[[Major-General]] '''Sir Howard Kippenberger''', [[Order of the British Empire|KBE]] [[Order of the Bath|CB]] [[Distinguished Service Order|DSO]] [[Territorial Decoration|ED]], ([[28 January]] [[1897]] - [[5 May]] [[1957]]). |
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Major-General Sir Howard Kippenberger, KBE CB DSO ED, (28 January 1897 - 5 May 1957).
Early Life
He was born in Ladbrooks, near Christchurch, the son of a schoolmaster who later became a farmer at Waimate. He was educated at Christchurch Boys' High School and later at Canterbury University College.
Kippenberger qualified as a solicitor in 1920 and later became manager and then a partner of the Rangiora branch of a Christchurch legal firm.
Military Service
At 18 he volunteered for active service in the First World War. As a private in the 1st Canterbury Regiment he took part in four attacks on the Somme during the autumn of 1916. He was repatriated after being seriously wounded in the right arm.
On the outbreak of the Second World War he was given command of a New Zealand battalion and rose during the war to become a Major-General before being wounded by a land-mine in Italy, losing a leg. He convalescenced in England.
After the War
On his return to New Zealand he was made Dominion President of the Royal New Zealand Returned and Services' Association from 1948–55.
He died in Wellington, New Zealand on 5 May 1957.
Recent Honour
In 2006 the Victoria University of Wellington announced the creation of the Sir Howard Kippenberger Chair in Strategic Studies.
It was generously supported by the Weston Foundation, chaired by his grandson Guy Weston whose mother Mary Weston was Kippenberger's daughter (she was the Sister-in-law of Galen Weston).
Kippenberger Research Library
The Kippenberger Research Library is an extensive collection covering a wide range of military subjects, with an emphasis on all major wars involving New Zealanders. The Kippenberger Research Library is located at the Army Museum Waiouru. [1]
The Kippenberger Collection [2] is a collection of books and journals collected by Major General Sir Howard Kippenberger from the age of twelve and he continued his passion until his death in 1957. Many of the books have been annotated in the margins by Kippenberger as he read them and gives an insight into his thinking on military warfare and strategy.
The collection was purchased from the estate in 1957 by the New Zealand Army and gifted to the Army Museum.
References
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