AWARD FOR BRAVERY
BRITISH OFFICER'S DARING.
ENCOUNTER WITH GERMAN PATROL.
(British Official Wireless.) RUGBY. January 30.
The first immediate award in the field to an officer serving with the B.E.F. has been made to Captain J. A. McKenzie, of the Gloucester Regiment.
Captain McKenzie has been awarded the Military Cross lor conspicuous daring and resource. The exploit for which the award has been made occurred d,tiring one of the night, patrols 'which are now regular duty for British troops in the front line. Captain McKenzie led two of his men to a listening post in no-man’s-land. He found there was a Gorman patrol advancing, but the British post remained perfectly still, though they estimated that the Germans were 20 strong, and allowed them to advance to within 10 yards before opening fire with a machine-gun. The two leading Germans fell and the rest scattered. Captain McKenzie led back his men to the British line, but set out into no-man’s-land again at the head of a strong battle patrol. Without loss they brought back one of the dead Germans.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 February 1940, Page 6
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