Howard Kippenberger

Major General Sir Howard Karl Kippenberger KBE, CB, DSO amp Bar, ED , known as Kip, was an officer of the New Zealand Military Forces who served in the First and Second World Wars.

Howard Kippenberger was born onJanuary 1897 in Ladbrooks, in the Canterbury Region of New Zealand, to Karl and Annie Kippenberger. His unusual surname came from his paternal greatgrandparents, who emigrated to New Zealand from Germany in 1862. The oldest of five children, he received his early education at local schools in Ladbrooks and nearby Prebbleton . When he was 14, his father became a farmer and moved the family to Oxford. Kippenberger continued his schooling at Christchurch Boys High School as a boarder. Intellectually advanced for his age, he was not academically challenged at school and misbehaved in class. This, together with a low attendance rate, led to the school authorities asking him to leave high school. Returning home to Oxford, he worked on the family farm.

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