WAR NOTES

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 20 June 1917, Page 7

WAR NOTES

A COURAGEOUS ACT. "Perhaps one of the most daring of j the hundreds of courageous acts that came under my observation was per- j formed by Sergeant Tunnelly, of ' Hawko's Bay," says an officer who was recently fighting in France. "On September 16th, when in Sunken road, an enemy's machine-gun was getting us, and adding to our casualties at an alarming rate. The difficulty was for the officer, to locate that gun, and Sergeant Tunnelly essayed to provide the information. Taking death in his hands ho quietly and apparently unconcernedly walked up the road smoking a cigarette. In an instant the gun was trained on him, and it seemed as if the Angelic Host threw their protecting arms around him and saved him from death that day, inasmuch as that though the ground all around him was devastated, and the bullets fell thick around his feet, ho miraculously escaped. Not 1 so the German gunner, who was successfully enfilading Sunken road. Our gun soon got him, and there was no further trouble from that source. Sergeant Tunnelly well deserved the military decoration he received."