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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2848, 12 August 1916, Page 13

The Rev. A. G. Paiham, Precentor of Christ Church, Oxford, Chaplain to the 2nd South Midland Mounted Brigado, has been awarded the Military Cross for gallantry at Gallipoli. Tho brigade was in the attack on tho Turkish position at Suvla on August 21. when the slirubs on tho Anafarta Plain caught fire. Mr. Parham, with the help of his servant, rescued many wounded men, and carried them to a place of safety beyond the reach of tho flames, and the following day, obtaining a large number of volunteers from his own brigade to act as stretcher bearers, he was chiefly instrumental in removing tho wounded from Chocolate Hill. After the battlo ho remained with his brigado ten weeks in tho trenches, under constant fire, ministering to the wounded and burying tho dead. During tho whole time he celebrated tho Holy Communion early each morning (somo days at two or more positions) in tho trenches. Subsequently ho accompanied the brigado in tho campaign against tho Sonussi, ou tho Westom frontier of Egypt.