AWARDED M.C.
MAJOR WHO OBEYED SUBALTERN London, Sept. 26. Announcing the award of the Military Cross to Major Paul Parbury, the “London Gazette” says he won the de-j coration when he twice took orders from a subaltern It happened when British troops were breaking out of a Gazaia “box” during tlie battles of Libya. Major Parbury. who was in command of a battery of a held regiment. Royal Artillery, drove up in a carrier as dusk was falling. The subaltern, thinking he was one of the battalion’s carriers, ordered him to silence an enemy post. On returning to the subaltern the ‘ Major announced that he had done it. j The subaltern, still not recognising his rank, told him to silence another The I major did that, too. The subaltern’s face was very red when later he discovered the rank ol j the man to whom he had given orders, j
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 17 October 1942, Page 6
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150AWARDED M.C. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 17 October 1942, Page 6
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