PUKEKOHE "BOY'S" GALLANTRY.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 6, Issue 252, 20 February 1917, Page 2

PUKEKOHE "BOY'S" GALLANTRY.

D.C.M. Awarded.

Private Maurice Ford, of tbe 13th Expeditionary Draft, bas been tbe tirst Pukekobe "boy" to gain tbe much coveted Distinguished Conduct Medal distinction. Id a letter dated December 6th last, written from France to a Pukekobe friend, just received, he modestly describes tbe incident with which he was concerned, at follows:—"One night about a couple of months ago a mate and I were on tbe 'Listening Post.' About 9.30 about forty of the Germans came over. The night was very dark and they came very cloae before we saw them. My mate went to give the report to the machine guna and I stopped behind. One of the Germans came right close to me and I shot him. I was in a little dug-out and they could cot see me. Then I got out of tbe hole and threw my bombs and I held tbem back until our machine guns got at tbem. I got about three of them—one shot and two bombed. Tbe 'Listening Post' is out on Noman's Land uutaide our barbed wire. I succeeded in getting the Military Medal for stopping at my post. I don't think I shall get the medal itself until Bfter tbe waronly a red, white and blue ribbon to wear."