VICTORIA CROSS AWARDS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3185, 8 September 1917, Page 7

VICTORIA CROSS AWARDS

CORPORAL L. W. ANDREW HONOURED FOR CONSPICUOUS BRAVERY .; London, September 6. ' Nino awards of Victoria Crosses are' announced. ?flie recipients include Corporal Leslie Wilton Andrew, of the New '■ Zealand Infantry, the .award , being'for.; conspicuous bravery while.in charge of. 'a small party, which took an enemy position. (,'orporal Andrew's objective was a machine-gun post,- which had been 10-; cated in an isolated building , . Leading his men forward, he eucuuil;ered unexpectedly a machine-gun post , which was holding up the advance of another company. Andrew immediately attacked it, capturing the uiachine-run, " and killing eeveral of thejjrew. Ho ihsm . continued the attack on tho machine- * gun post which was the original objective, and displayed great skill- and determination, in his disposition. Ho final-, lv captured the post, killing several of the enemy and putting the remainder tu flight. : _"..-. Corporal Andrew's conduct ihrouKneufc was unexampled for cool daring, iuitia-. tive, and fine leadership, and his mag- ; nificent example was a fine stimulant So- , , his comrades.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. A Press Association message fiom Wa« nganu? states fhat Corporal Leslie Wilton Andrew, who has been -awarded tha Victoria Cross, ji tho son of Jfr. W. J. -Andrew, headmaster of the Wancanui'' East School. He is twenty-two years of age. At the time of his enlistment, in. 1915, he was endued in the office of MrV C. E. ilackay, soltcitor. ■ He was a kectt' . Cadet and Territorial. , IS KITCHENER ALIVE? A LIVERPOOL EESIBENT GAMBLING • ON IT. (Rec. September 8, 0.35 a.m.) London, September 7. A Liverpool resident has takan. ont am. insurance policy for .£IO,OOO ;it five shillings per cent., on his conviction, that Kitchener was alive on Aiiyasfc 31.—United Service.