HONOR TO THE BRAVE.

Westport Times, Volume VI, Issue 929, 20 February 1872, Page 3

HONOR TO THE BRAVE.

(From the " Pall Mall Gazette."

The Prussian Govarhment have bestowed the Iron Cross and steel war medal upon Surgeon Manley, of the Royal Artillery, whose distinguished services and exertions to save to merit special attention. This officer served in the Crimea at the siege of Sebasfconol. He afterwards served in New Zealand in 186465, and then so distinguished himself by bringing wounded men out of action, attending to the wounded under fire, and in other ways, that he was mentioned in despatches by Sir Duncan Cameron, thanked iu general orders by Sir Trevor Chute, promoted to the rank of staff-surgeon for distinguished and meritorious services, and granted the Victorian Cross for valour. He also reeeived the bronze medal of the Royal- Humaue Society for jumping overboard and saving a gunner who had fallen into the VVaitotara river while disembarking.

Surgeon Manley proceeded to the seat of war in France with'the'British ia sharga .ofi';B!"division of that ambulance, and attached to the 22nd division of the. Prussian Army, with which he marched between 300 and 400 miles duiing the severe winter weather in November and December, and was present at several engagements, including the general action near Art.henay; During this time he was continually employed in attending on the wounded of both arinieSj and in., bringing them in from the field of battle, aud his cool intrepidity, in dressing wounds under fire extorted the highest admiration from Prussian officers, and earned for him the special thanks',of the general in command, as well as the Iron Cross. Immediataly on the declaration of the armistice, Surgeon Manley proceeded into Paris with provisions and medical comforts for the hospitals. Since his return he has prepared some Valuable reports on the organisa tion and working of the Prussian medical service, ambulance, field hospitals, &c. Thus Surgeon Manley has the Victoria Cross, the Humane Society Medal, and the Iron Cross—all won under circumstances of great distinction. He is an officer of whom the British service has reason to be proud ; -but,he is one whose modesty would have prevented his services being made public if that were possible. ' We shall he glad to learn that we are misinformed.when we add that the British Government have refused to allow Surgeon Manley's services in France to count as a term of foreign .service ; and-that at one time a question was even. raised of stopping the pay of the British medical officers employed with, the ambulances.