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Matamata Record, Volume II, Issue 108, 28 November 1918, Page 2

" You ought to get a bar to the V.C. for that, Jack," were the words that gieeted Sergeant John Whittle, V.C, at the close of a little incident at Port Melbourne, reports the 'Argus.' Dr Weigall, president of the Automobile club, was taking four returning V.C. heroes, of whom Sergeant Whittle was one, through Port Melbourne in his motor-oar, when a young and powerful horse attached to a baker's cart was startled by a band aud bolted. It was heading straight for the crowd which had assembled along the route, and a tragedy seemed inevitable. Sergeant Whittle sprang out of the motor-car, dashed at the horse's head, grasped the reins, and, exerting all his strength, stopped the horse and finanally led it back to a place of safety. It was as he was returning to the motor-car, amidst the cheers of the crowd, that one of his V.C comrades told him that he had earned a bar to his V.C.