Alexander Lipmann-Kessel

Lipmann Kessel, MBE, MC, FRCS (19 December 1914 – 5 June 1986), was an orthopaedic surgeon and Second World War medical officer, often known by his nickname of Lippy.

[1] Born in Pretoria, Transvaal, Union of South Africa, he was involved at the Battle of Arnhem where at the time he was a captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC), assigned to the 16th (Parachute) Field Ambulance.

[1] He is credited with saving the life of Brigadier Sir John Hackett when he operated on him for a severe abdominal wound at the St. Elisabeth Hospital in Arnhem.

Kessel, who was Jewish, was taken prisoner at Arnhem, but later escaped and has told his story in his book Surgeon at Arms, published in 1958.

Hacketts memoir confirms Lipmann Kessel carried out urgent and life saving abdominal surgery at St Elizabeths Hospital, Arnhem