FOR VALOUR.
11ANY AWARDS GIVEN
AN AUSTRALIAN V.C
LONDON, September 26. A thirty-page "Gazette" of honours grantee} includes Sergeant Claude Charles Castleton, of the Australian Machine-gun Company, who is given the Victoria Cross. During an attack on enemy trenches, the infantry were temporarily driven back by intense machine-gun fire and many wounded were left in " No Man's Land," lying in shell holes. Sergeant Castleton went out twice in the face of intense fire, and brought a wounded man in on his back. He was bringing in a third when he was himself hit in tho back and killed instantly. He set a splendid example of courage and self-sacrifice. Eleven other Victoria Crosses aro granted, including one to Private Albert, Hill, of the Welsh Fusiliers, who when surrounded by 20 of tho enemy, attacked them with bombs and killed and wounded a number, and so fought his way back to the British lines.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXVI, Issue 3565, 27 September 1916, Page 5
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152FOR VALOUR. Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXVI, Issue 3565, 27 September 1916, Page 5
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