"KING OF NO-MAN'S LAND"
! LATE SERGEANT AWARDED A VICTORIA CROSS
1 , London, September 27. f The Victoria Cross Has been awarded ! to Sergeant it. C. Travis, late, of the 1 Otago Regiment (who'has been nick- | named "King of No Man's Land"). He' j volunteered to destroy' an impassable blook of wne, arid crawled put at dawn.. ) During the daylight, and in close prox--1 imity to the enemy's posts, he successI fully destroyed the blook with bombs, and enabled the attacking parties to I puss. A feiy irimites Jater two enemy lnaohine-guns held up ono of our bombi- ing parties,-endangering the success of I the whole operation. Sergeant TraVis, 1 utterly disregarding the danger, rusli- , 6i' tho positions, , killed the crew, and r captured the guns. An enemy officer and three- men attempted to retake the. guns, and Sergeant Travis killed them single-handed. He was killed twentyfour ho/urs later when going from post 1 to post encouraging tlio men under a 1 most intense enemy , 'Aus.-N'Z. Cable Aesn.-Rcuter. • , '[The late Sergeant Travis, in addition to the V.C., won tho Distinguished .Conduct Medal, the Military Medal, ' and the Belgian Croix de Guerre. He was about thirty years of and was a native of Texas, but, being left an orphan at an early age, lie emigrated to Victoria, and later came, to New 1 Zealand He enlisted from R.yal Bush, Southland, in the Main Body, haying been a horse. trainer up to that time. He was on Gallipoli until the evacuation. Early in 1016 he transferred from the mounted arm to tho Bth Southland Company, Second Otago Battalion, and proceeded to France.l ,
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 4, 30 September 1918, Page 6
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269"KING OF NO-MAN'S LAND" Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 4, 30 September 1918, Page 6
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