COURAGE & SKILL
AWARD OF DISTINGUISHED SERVICE ORDER TO LIEUTENANT-COLONEL BENNETT. LEADERSHIP IN BATTLE OF MAORI BATTALION. (Official News Service, N.Z.E.F.) (Received This Day, 12.50 p.m.) JERUSALEM, May 22. The citation in connection with the immediate award of the Distinguished Service Order to Lieutenant-Colonel. Charles Mohi Bennett, Maori Battalion, is as follows: —“In an {attack on a Roman wall position on March 26, Lieutenant-Colonel Bennett’s battalion became directly engaged with a German battalion. A desperate struggle ensueud between the two units, which continued unceasingly for 24 hours and ended in the surrender of the enemy remnants to a final attack launched by Lieutenant-Colonel Bennett with a fine exhibition of will power and skill. Throughout this very severe action, he displayed initiative and determination of a high order and qualities of leadership and courage which were an inspiration to his battalion.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 May 1943, Page 4
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