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About John Reginald Halliday Christie
Christie, who was born in Halifax, West Yorkshire, was a notorious English serial killer active in the 1940s and early 1950s. He murdered at least eight females – including his wife Ethel – by strangling them in his flat at 10 Rillington Place, Notting Hill, London. Christie moved out of Rillington Place in March 1953, and shortly afterwards the bodies of three of his victims were discovered hidden in an alcove in his kitchen. His wife's body was found beneath the floorboards of the front room. Christie was arrested and convicted of his wife's murder, for which he was hanged.
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During September 1916 Christie enlisted in the army and during the next April he was called up to join the 52nd Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment. During April 1918 Christie's regiment was despatched to France, where he was seconded to the Duke of Wellington's (West Riding) Regiment as a signalman. That June, Christie was injured in a mustard gas attack and spent a month in a military hospital in Calais. Later in life, Christie claimed to have been blinded and rendered mute for three and a half years by the attack. Christie's period of muteness was the alleged reason for his inability to talk much louder than a whisper for the rest of his life. Ludovic Kennedy points out that no record of his blindness has been traced and that, while Christie may have lost his voice when he was admitted to hospital, he would not have been discharged as fit for duty had he remained a mute. His inability to talk loudly, Kennedy argues, was a psychological reaction to the gassing rather than a lasting toxic effect of the gas. That reaction, and Christie's exaggeration of the effects of the attack, stemmed from an underlying personality disorder that caused him to exaggerate or feign illness as a ploy to get attention and sympathy.
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British Royal Air Force, Airmen's service records 1912-1939
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- First name(s) John Reginald Halliday
- Last name Christie
- Birth year 1896
- Birth date 08 Apr 1896
- Birth town Halifax
- Birth county Yorkshire
- Occupation Motor Driver
- Attestation year 1923
- Attestation date 13 Dec 1923
- Attestation age 27
- Service number 356827
- Archive reference AIR 79/2925
- Next of kin first name(s) -
- Next of kin last name Christie
- Record set British Royal Air Force, Airmen's service records 1912-1939
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John Reginald Halliday Christie's Timeline
| 1899 |
April 8, 1899
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Halifax, Yorkshire, England UK
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| 1953 |
July 15, 1953
Age 54
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London, Middlesex, England UK
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