GALLANT OFFICER
AWARDED MILITARY CROSS SERVICE ON NORTH-WEST FRONTIER. POST DEFENDED AGAINST HEAVY ODDS. (British Official Wireless.) (Recd This Day, 10.5 a.m.) RUGBY, August 23. The “London Gazette” announces that the King has approved the award of the Military Cross to Lieutenant Godfrey Lerwill, of the Second Royal Battalion of the Ludhiana Sikhs, part of the Eleventh Sikh Regiment of the Indian Army and attached to the Tochi Scouts, for gallant and distinguished service in action in connection with operations on the North-West Frontier of India. Lieutenant Lerwill was in command of and the sole British officer present at an’isolated scout post from May, 5, until he was relieved on June 9. Large numbers of tribesmen between May 27 and June 6 attempted to besiege the post and hem in the garrison. Two night attacks were made. Lieutenant Lerwill conducted a vigorous and skilful defence, causing many enemy casualties.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 August 1938, Page 5
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149GALLANT OFFICER Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 August 1938, Page 5
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