NAVAL AWARDS
ATTACKS ON THE GERMAN BATTLE-CRUISERS. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, March 31. Many awards in connection with the passage of the German battle-cruisers through the Channel were gazetted tonight. Captain Pizey is made a Companion of the Bath “for daring and fine judgment in leading a striking force of destroyers to a resolute attack in daylight at close range, and against odds upon the German battle-cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, and the cruiser Prinz Eugen.” Six D.S.O.’s, nine D.S.C.’s, and seventeen D.S.M.’s are also awarded, and there are many mentions in dispatches.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 April 1942, Page 3
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