VICTORIA CROSSES
INCLUDED IN POSTHUMOUS AWARDS. RECEIVED BY SISTER & MOTHER OF DEAD HEROES. (Bv Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) LONDON. June 12. His Majesty, at a private investiture at Buckingham Palace, handed decorations to the relatives of 76 dead officers and men. Two women were given Victoria Crosses. They were Miss Fegan. sister of Captain Edward Fegan. of H.M.S. Jervis Bay. which engaged enemy ships and saved a convoy in the Atlantic, and Mrs Lane, mother of Flying Officer Donald Garland, pilot of a plane which bombed a bridge over the Albert Canal during the German invasion of Belgium.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 June 1941, Page 5
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