GALLANT DEEDS
IN DESERT CAMPAIGN AWARDS TO NEW ZEALAND SOLDIERS. HEADQUARTERS ANNOUNCEMENT. (British Official Wireless.) CAIRO, December 13. Seventeen immediate awards for gallantry to New Zealanders who took part in recent actions in the Libyan desert were announced today by the headquarters of the Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. The decorations are: — Distinguished Service Order. Major C. H. Sawyers, artillery. Military Cross. Lieutenant C. S. Pepper, anti-tank brigade; Lieutenant A. C. Yoeman, Auckland infantry; Second Lieutenant C. H. Cathie, Wellington infantry; Captain D. J. Fountaine, South Island infantry; Lieutenant G. L. Lee, mach-ine-gun battalion; Second Lieutenant A. R. Guthrey, South Island infantry. Distinguished Conduct Medal. Private W. D. Friday, Auckland infantry; Sergeant H, R. Martin, Wellington infantry; Sergeant G. MacM. Dodds, South Island infantry; Private G. H. Goad, Auckland infantry; Gunner C. J. Winthrop, artillery; Lance-Ser-geant R. L. Burke, anti-tank brigade. Military Medal. Sergeant-Major P. George, artillery; Gunner R. Wixon, anti-tank brigade; Bombardier T. M. Hutchinson, artillery; Lance-Corporal C. Munro, field ambulance. Major Sawyers and Second Lieut. Cathie are both well known to Masterton business men.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 December 1941, Page 5
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