VICTORIA CROSS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2973, 16 January 1917, Page 5

VICTORIA CROSS

THE LATEST RECIPIENTS London, January 14. A Gazette announces that 'victoriar Crosses have been awarded as follow: — Pte. John Cunningham, East Yorks. —When the rest of his bombing section, had been killed or wounded he collect- ' ed bombs and proceeded alone. Hβ re- : turned for a fresh supply and readvanced. While doing bo he met and killed ten Germans and cleared the " trench. Pte. David Ross Lander, of the Scot- ' tish Fusiliers.—He placed his foot on r a fallen homb. The foot *was blown off, but his party was saved.r— Aus.N.Z. Cablo Assn.-Reuter. BRITISH PRIVATE HONOURED Paris, January 14. A' French general at tho Somme has ' presented the Military Medal and the 6 Cross of War to" a British'private in his battalion for relieving the French iu the trenches -when the Gormans attacked. Tho private awaited the German wave till it was thirty yards distant, then fired, killing-six-men._ A) second wave advanced and.was.similar- . ly received, but the Germans gradually surrounded the post. The private > dashed out, shouting "Come on, men!" ' as if loading troops, and the Germans J retired hurriedly. They Teburne3 when [ they saw they had been, fooled, but were mowed down by" the ?s's, which s the private's bravery had 'enabled to arrive. Subsequently the private waa found at his post, wounded.—Reuter.