"FOR VALOUR"
VICTORIA CROSS AWARDS,
Br Telegraph—Press Association—OopjTi?ht . London, October 1. The Victoria Cross, has, been awarded to Captain Hansen, of the 6th Lincolnshire Regiment, of the New Ariny.—On. August 9, ,i)t yilghin.Bunm,. Gallipoli, the Lincolns were forced to retire, leaving their wounded,' owing to the intense heat of the burning scrub. - Captain Hansen, with three or four volunteers, dashed several times over four hundred yards of . open, ground, under terrific fire, and rescued six of the wounded fiom inevitable death by' burning. To Private Potts, Berkshire Yeomanry severely .wounded at Hill 70, lie remained for forty-eight hours under the Turkish trenches with a wounded private, unable to move, Finally, using _ a shovel as a sledge, he dragged his comrade six hundred yards to the British lines, though the Turks were firing.
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2583, 4 October 1915, Page 5
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132"FOR VALOUR" Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2583, 4 October 1915, Page 5
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