"FOR VALOUR."
VICTORIA CROSS AWARDS . ; Australian-New Zealand Cable Association. (Roc. September 27, 0.45 a.m.) London, September 26. Thirty pages of "Gazette" honours include: — Sergeant Claude Charles Castleton, Australian Machine-gun Company, Victoria, Cross.' During an attack on the enemy's trenches the infantry was temporarily driven back by intense ma-chine-gun fire. Many of the wounded were left in No Man's Land lying in shell holes. Castleton went out twico, in the face of an intense fire, and brought in a wounded man on his back. In bringing his third man in, he himself was hit in the back and killed instantly. He set a splendid example of courage and self-sacrifice. There are eleven other Victoria Cross awards, including Private Albert Hill, of the Welsh Fusiliers, who, when surrounded by twenty of the enemy, attacked them with bombs, killed and wounded a ruimtar, ajid fought his way back to the British lines.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2887, 27 September 1916, Page 5
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149"FOR VALOUR." Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2887, 27 September 1916, Page 5
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