POSTHUMOUS AWARD
FRENCH OFFICER VINDICATED. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. PARIS, April 5. Second-Lieutenant Jean Babelot was today posthumously awarded the Croix de Guerre. He and 20 soldiers were killed in a lorry on the Western Front on February 19. Babelot has now been vindicated, as it is revealed that lhe lorry on which they rode did not take a wrong turning, as had been alleged, but was ambushed behind the French outposts.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 April 1940, Page 5
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71POSTHUMOUS AWARD Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 April 1940, Page 5
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