WAR HONOURS FOR NEW ZEALANDERS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 126, 14 February 1918, Page 5

WAR HONOURS FOR NEW ZEALANDERS

AWARDED BY THE KING OF THE BELGIANS (Special Dispatch from the New Zealand War Correspondent, Captain Malcolm Ross.) October 20. The King of the Belgians has, with the approval of King George, bestowed the following decorations:— Chevalier de l'Ordro do Leopold II — Corporal F. J. Tempero (Otago). Croix de Guerre.—Lieutenant-Colonel J. Hardie Neil, Medical Corps; Captain T. A. Blake, Veterinary Corps; Ser-goant-Major T. H. West, Canterbury; Sergeant-Major E. J. Conlon, Rifles; Q.M.S. A. Mason, Canterbury; Q.M.S. T. E. Bickford, Rifles; Q.M.S. A. J. Coupland, Rifles; Sergeant-Farrier J. Sproat, Army Service Corps; and the following sergeants: F. G. Sproat (Army Service Corps), F. G. Tolt (Wellington), L. T. Wylie (Auckland), G. V. Woods (machine-gunner), J. Vincent (Canterbury), E. A. Wheeler (Canterbury), R. C. Travis (Otago), P. L. Grant (Rifles), AV. Watkins (machine-gunner), J. Rennio (Cantorbury), T. A. Andrewssen (Wellington), A. E. Law (Wellington), A. Ward (Engineers), J. G. Jackson (Field Ambulance), F. Loftus (Field Ambulance), J. D. Beattie (Artillery), T. Woodrow (Artillery), H. Muir (Trench Mortars),, J. L. M'Gregor (Auckland); also Corporal 0. King (Otago), Bombardier A. K. Greces (Artillery), Lance-Corporal H. J. M'Cheeney (Wellington), Private D. Moynihan (Auckland), Private W. J. Harris (Auckland), Private J. M'Elligott (Wellington), Private V. Cruickshank (Canterbury), Rifleman S. N. Hooper, Rifleman G. M. Bolton (Rifles), Private J. Ross (Otago), Private H. Kanara (Pioneers), Gunner A. W. M'Leod (Artillery). Lance-Sergeant A. M'Lean (Otago) has been awarded the Military Medal. The units of identity are given in each case as near ns is permissible, though the men do not necessarily come from the district mentioned. Vincent has already been awarded the Military Medal'and the D.C.M., and Travis and Muir the D.C.M.