LEGION OF HONOR.

Taranaki Daily News, 6 November 1915, Page 5

LEGION OF HONOR.

FOR A NEW ZEALANDEB, * First Lieutenant James Lloyd lay, who last week received frooi tha President of France the Legion of Honor for great gallantry in the battle ol Loos, fought on October 3-1, is the sec ond oldest son of Sir .John Findlay, and was born in Wellington oh October 8, 1806. He was thus only a few daTB over 2C years of age when he won the great decoration. The Legion of Honor ranks with the highest European Orders. It was instituted by Napoleon Bonaparte on May 19, 1802, as an Order of Merit. When conferred for gallantry on the iield of battle, it is regarded as the French equivalent for the British Victoria Cross.

Lieutenant Findlay was educated at the Wellington Terrace School, and attended Wellington College for several years. In 1912 he proceeded with his youligor brother, lan (killed in action in Flanders on .August 10) to England, and was for over two years a student at tlie Imperial Service College at Windsor. He won last year the chief prize known as the Blue Ribbon of the College. He wsts captain of the College, nr.d its Head Prefect at the close of the Inst term. Shortly after the war broke out he joined Kitchener's army aa a private. He was soon promoted to the rani; of second lieutenant, and later lh-st lieutenant aiiid battalion intelligence officer,

Lieutenant Findlav has been fighting m Flanders for several months and has been through several of the hottest engagements that have taken place there, I'ciiig nearly all Die time in the trenches near \pres. Some time ago he was reported by his major as having acted with great gallantry in action. He is the first young New Zealander who luu won the Legion of Honor, and naturally his friends in Wellington are highly delighted. Lieutenant Findlay belongs to an Essex Regiment.