OUR SECOND V.C. HERO

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3114, 19 June 1917, Page 5

OUR SECOND V.C. HERO

LATE SERGEANT DONALD FORRESTER BROWN HIS VALOUR IN WAR (Special Dispatch from the N.Z. Official Correspondent, Captain M. Itoss.) France, June 15. It is strange that details of tho heroic conduct that won tho New Zealand Division's second V.C. were not known Tintil long after the. lighting in which it was gained, and until long after Sergt. Donald Forrester Brown was killed in. action in the second Somme offensive. Tho North'Otago Company, to which he belonged, went into that action with their .officers and came out without them. The command of the company then devolved upon Sergeant Eogers. Ho and Blown, after killing four of a German machine-gun crew, charged and captured the gun, which had beon holding up our advance. Later in tho day our advance was again hold up by another gun, suid Brown, after bayoneting several of the Germans in. the trench,, disposed of the gun's crew. His company had to stand to all afternoon under an intense bombardment, during which Brown, showed remarkable spirit and an absolute contempt of danger. In the attack on October 1 on the German third lino ho again displayed great bravery, and.single-handed ho attacked another machine-gun, killing all the crew and capturing the gun itself. While snipiiig at the retreating enemy fifty yards in advanco of this post, lie wns Itiniselr killed."

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