JUTLAND BATTLE.

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2878, 16 September 1916, Page 9

JUTLAND BATTLE.

HONOURS AND AWARDS FOR ' OFFICERS ' Australian-New Zealand Cable-Association. (Rec. September 16, 0,30 a.m.) London, September 15. The awards for the Jutland-Battle are announced in the "Gazette." The Order of Merit is bestowed on Sir John Jellicoe, and, arising out of the recommendation of Sir John Jellico.e's supplementary. dispatches, a large number of honours have been awarded. Those include: — ' Knight of the Bath : Admiral Beatty. Commanders of the' Royal Victorian Order: Rear-Admirais ljvan-Thomas, Pakenham, also, posthumously-, Arbuthnot and Hood.-, • - Thirty-three Companions, including Rear-Admirals. .Ernest! Gaunt, . Duff,, Leveson, Kennedy, • Cetlme; E.-H.: M...Nicholson,* Grand Cross of St. .Michael: ViceAdmiral' Sir Cecil :Burnev. Commanders of St. Michael: ViceAdmiral Sir Jerram. Rear-Admirais Sir •JL'S.turde'e' and C.-E.-Madden. •'"•Forty-ttro Distinguished 'Service 4 Orders, thirteen Distinguished Service Crosses, including the ■ Rev. Anthony Pollen, a Catholic chaplain;'wlio:. carried burned men from the deck, though himself severely burnt.'' Admiral - Beatty's captains'- 'were largely rewarded.' Ghat-field, of ', : the Lion, received the Companion of St. Michael; Cowan, of ' the Princess Royal; 'Polly, of the Tiger; Heaton Ellis, of the Inflexible: and, Green; who commanded and fought'-' in- the -New, Zealand with'great skill and gallantry, also.three light,cruisers' captains, receive the Companionship of the Bath. - Dannreutber, who controlled the Invincible's fire with overwhelming result on tho enemy until the Invincible blew up, receives the" D.S:O. The Wa'rspite -figures prominently in the honours.Captain...Philjpotts receives the Companionship' of -tlio Batli for .'splendidly .handling his., battleship after the" steering gear broke down; also, when nearing the Firth of Forth, much damaged, three submarines attacked, .and Captain. Pliillpotts brilliantly brought his ship'into port safely. _ , :Victoria 'Crosses 1 - awarded -Com-' mandcr Edward Bingham, of the destroyer Nestor, now-a,prisoner of.-war, for gallantry in -leading 'his' - Hwision against destroyers and then against battliMiruisers, and when finallylie sighted the Battle Fleet, though, followed by the Nicator, the sole'remaining destroyer of his division, 1 'hfe closed-with-in three thousand yards, - with' "daunt-' less courage, in order to fire, torpedoes. The Nostdr.- and Nicator.sustained..the concentrated fire of the. High Seas Fleet's secondary batteriesr" 'flic' Nestor subsequently sank. ■ , , .- ,- " Major Francis' Harvey, "of."the marines, who received the Victoria Gross, was/mortally wounded and was almost the sole survivor. After a shell exploded -in -the gun-house,., -with-.,.great presence of mind he ordered the.maga--zines to be flooded, thus' saving his ship. He died soon afterr-' : ; Petty Officers and Men. .Victoria CrossJohn - Cornwall, under circumstances cabled- ':' in Admiral Beatty's dispatch. ■ - "■'■■■ ■■■■•■ Tliirteen Conspicuous .Gallantry Medals, including several instances of explosions prevented. ' ' ' One hundred and 6eventy-five Distinguished Service Medals; 255 commended. - ' : M. Poincare bestowed the- Legion of Honour on a number of 'officers' for services; Grand Croix-.to, Sir J., Jelli-r coe; Grand Office to Admirals Burnoy, Beatty, and Bacon; Croix de;oommandeur to Jerram, Sburdee, Madden, Evan-Thomas, De Chair,,.. Tyrwhitt, Twenty-four Croix d'Office, including -Commandore Lionel Halsey, '.. Captain Green; and fifty Chevaliers. A hundred petty officers and men wer« awarded the Medale Militaire.

Jellicoe's Preface., Sir John Jellicoc prefaced his reconv mendations as follows'"Where -' all carried out their duties so -well,--it- is somewhat invidious and difficult to select officers for special recognition." .