GALLANTRY UNDER FIRE
HOW. THE. MILITARY CROSS WAS WON.
The official details of the circum-, stances in which Lieutenant Eric Pryce, .son of Mr. Herbert Pryce, of Kakariki, Halcombe, was awarded the Military Cross "for gallantry and steadiness under fire/' relate that on August 15 last Lieutenant Pryce's battery (D Battery, 105 th Howitzer Brigade, R.F.A.) position was west of Manietz Wood. "The position was shelled, a gun was hit, and the men of the detachment wounded. Lieutenant Pryce, assisted by B.S.M. Porter and Gunner Day, tended the wounded under fire, and in five minutes had the guil in action, and continued the bombardment.
"On August 8 a gun of this battery, ■was bit, and the ammunition in the pit exploded. The gun was thrown a distance of forty yards, arid the men of the detachment in, the shelter-trench were buried by the displaced earth. Lieutenant Pryce showed great coolness in organising and directing a digging party, which after an hour's work under fire, recovered tho wholo detachment. , "Lieutenant Pr.vce had to take over tho battery on July 81, when tho battery commander was wounded, and he has given a very praiseworthy exhibition of coolness and gallantry for so young an officer."
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2907, 20 October 1916, Page 4
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202GALLANTRY UNDER FIRE Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2907, 20 October 1916, Page 4
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