SHIP’S CADET DECORATED
LONDON, August 4. The British Empire Medal has been awarded lo John Halstead Dobson, ship’s cadet, Teignmouth. The citation states that. Dobson was captured in Crete by the advancing Germans. He was forced to march in front of parachutists. Though suffering from chronic appendicitis. Dobson escaped and reached a New Zealand battery, and for some days gave good service in helping to deliver ammunition. He then proceeded to the south side of the island, boarded with others a motorized lauding barge, and sailed to Egypt. Dobson was the only sailor in the party and it was largely because of his navigation s-kiil that the barge reached Egypt after a voyage of nine days.
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Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 264, 6 August 1942, Page 8
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116SHIP’S CADET DECORATED Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 264, 6 August 1942, Page 8
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