BRAVE NEW ZEALANDERS.

Taranaki Daily News, 10 January 1916, Page 5

BRAVE NEW ZEALANDERS.

DISTINGUISHED SERVICE ORt)ER. Amongst those whoso gallantry and devotion to duty the King has recogrjis«l by approving their appointment as Companions of the Distinguished Service Order, a Territorial officer, Captain Blair, of the Border Regiment, stands .nit prominently. . He went out with a bombing party at Armentieresj, when a party of 14 Germans attacked them. Coolly, reserving his fire until the enemy were only ten yards away, Captain Blair then shot four with his revolver, and only two of the Germans got' away unbounded. : More laurels have been won by th 6 Artillery arid Engineers. ■ Those whom, the, King has' honored with the D.8.0. include:—

'Major Ivan Tatham Staridisb, No. 3 Cattery,- New Zealand Artillery, Isr conspicuous gallantry in tlie GallTpoU Peninsula on August 27 and 28, 1915. He waa controlling tife lire of a very exposed section of ' guns, performing to duty on a flank under fire, when one of his guns was put out pf action and a Are broke out round his ammunition pit. He at once left his observing station, ran to the pit, and personally assisted in extinguishing the lire. : Major Standish is a New Plymouth boy, being the youngest son of the late, Mr. A. Standish.

Captain Bertram Sibbald Finn, of the New Zealand Medical Corps, for con-, ipicuous devotion to duty in the Gallipoli Peninsula during operations from August G to 9, 1915, when he worked ilay and night with unceasing zeal and without rest evacuating the wounded. His work was carried out under continuous fire; on one occasion the dressing station being heavily shelled for an hour, and many assistants and wounded being hit. Owing to Captain Finn's efforts the wounded lying in the mors exposed positions were got Into a place of greater safety. Temp. Second Lieutonant Robert McPherson, New Zealand Field Artillery, for conspicuous gallantry during operations in the flnllipoli Peninsula on August 27 and 28, 1913. His battery was heavily shelled by big explosive shells during an assault on Hill CO. One gun wa-s put out of action, and a pit containing over SO high explosive shells became surrounded by blazing brushrood. One slight explosion had already taken place when Sccon/1 Lieutenant McPherson, at a great personal risk, went down into the pit and assisted in extinguishing the fire. <