PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 26 August 1918, Page 4

PERSONAL.

•uuurmg the non-commissioned officers of the 4fith Reinforcements are Corporals George Pearce and Francis Morshead, of New.Ply mouth.

Lieutenant C. G. Burgess and Se'rgfe A. L. Mitchell (Hawera) are repotted among the not severe eases in the last hospital list published. Writing on June 28, the Evening Post's London correspondent; says: thai) Lieutenant-Colonel Claude Weston, K.Z. Infantry, was presented with his 8.5.0. by the King at Buckingham Palace.' Mrs. F. A. Macdonald, of Inglewood, has received word that her brother, H. Lylian, who had gained the Military. Medal for carrying woujded men under heavy fire, has since received the Croix de Guerre for gallantry in the field, this being the second honor in four weeks. The friends of Mr. John Jonw,, secretary to the New Plymouth Gas Company, will regret to learn of his death, from typhoid fever, at the New Plymouth hospital early yesterday morning. The late Mr. Jones was a Londoner, and a member of St. George's Bifles, one of the best known volunteer■ regiments in the metropolis. He caiiiei to. :Ne^:i:'Zealand 'about 25 years ago, and. wiis tor some time farming at Okato, subsequent- 1 ly" taking employment as an accountant in New Plymouth and in Stratford, fee was a member of Nganiotu Lodge of Freemasons, and passed the chair in ■1907.

The following is an account of the deed which won : the. P.CM. for Private A..L. Sturjney, of New,., Plymouth: Private A. L;,Sturniey,' Siflc lii'igade, brilliantly organised .parties '■!(,, cover the ;Withdrawal!.. .yAeii ~a.■ {g reatly/ .--ipenor enemy had reached, .to witliiii 20 yards, and, by boldly working, a machine-gun under heavy lire, assisted in the final repulse of the, enemy. He himself killed 14,, .and-.by..,his. example . a very small party "fln"ecte,d. M tr.?mendo.us execution in the enemy rank*,'' PrivateiSturmey received his decoration from, the King, at Buckingham "ParaceTn*'"J'{ihT 23 last. Private Sturmey corner of,great flglitinc; stock, two of his. .nephews',; sphs of Mrs. Fitzrpy. J)ay ung jjireatty made the supreme sacrifice.' ' "'■'' ,