A PEACE-LOVING V.C.
It is a remarkable fact that Sergeant, Martin O'Meara, V.C., was always averse to fighting, and before he sailed for the front endeavored to secure a transference to a non-combatant corps. This he failed to do, and in France lie often expresses repugnance at the idea of killing men. When tlie test came, however, he showed supreme indilference to danger. Sergeant O'Meara is 30 years oi age, and was attached to the llSth (S.A. and W.A. Battalion). He is a native of Ireland, and was the second soldier from V est Australia to win the Victoria Cross. During four days of the heaviest fighting at Mouquet Farm he repeatedly went out and brought wounded officers and men from No Man's Land under intense artillery and machine-gun fire. He volunteered to carry up ammunition and bombs through the heavy barrage to o portion of the trenches which was being teavilj- selled, and showed utter cont('nipt of danger throughout He undoubtedly saved many lives. For these exploits he was decorated by the King af Buckingham Palace in July, 1917.
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Taranaki Daily News, 10 September 1919, Page 6
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180A PEACE-LOVING V.C. Taranaki Daily News, 10 September 1919, Page 6
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