HONORS FOR WAR HEROES

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2524, 27 July 1915, Page 6

HONORS FOR WAR HEROES

FOUR .VICTORIA CROSS 'AWARDS.' Tho-Higli Commissioner reports:— London, July 24, 11.10 p.m. . . Four {Victoria Crosses - have been awarded: To Captain Eustace Jotham, y.of the - olst Sikhs; Lieutenant George .•••• 'Moor, of the 3rd.Hamps/liires; Corporal . Joseph ,Tombs, of the Ist King's Liverpool; and Lance-Oorporal Albert Jacka, of the, 14tli Battalion . Australian Im- ; perial Forces. . : -The.-Military Cross lias been awarded • ••••to I/ieutehant Hilgrove M'Cormick. of the 'Ist Leinster Royal: Canadians. .:' (Press Association.) London, July 25. .-Tiie deeds by which the Victoria Crosses were earned are as follow:— - Captain Jotham', of "the. slst Sikhs— • On January 7, in ToHii Valloy, 1500 -tribesmen atacked Captain Jotham and u dozen Waziristan militia. Captain Jotham, ordered a;rotirement, and sac- - jriliced his life to' rescue a man who had .lost his horse. . Socond Lieutenant Moor, of t'he 3rd Hampshires—For bravery and resource ut Krithia'. When a battalion liad lost all its 'officer-s,; and was rapidly retiring under a heavy ; attack,'Moor, - realising .the clanger to tlio 'remainder'of the line, dashed hack 200 yards : and led his men, who captured the,' trench. Lance-Corporal Tombs, of the Ist Liverpool Regiment—For gallantry at ißuo du Bois. On his own initiative'he crawled out repeatedly under heavy shell 'arid machine-Kim fire, and rescued four men a hundred yards in front of tlio trenches. [Lance-Corporal Jacka's exploit was < . teported yesterdsy.] V; '. ' Twelve D.S.O.'s have been awarded, including Lieutenant-Colonel Wilson, of the sth' Royal Scots, for boldly-re- ' . capturing a trench at Krithia, •. from : which troops of another division had . been forced back.' '. ' Thirty-three Military Crosses have been awarded.