ENSIGN McKENNA, V.C.
The Editor, "The Listener" Sir,-J.G.W.’s letter of December 10 last reminds me of another fact worthy of note: The Sergt. McKenna mentioned by him-with whom I was well acquainted-was the only Imperial soldier to be "raised from the ranks" and given a commission during the say in New Zealand of the troops sent from Britain in 1860. The rank of "Ensign" to which he was raised is, apparently, no longer extant in the British Army, I am relying entirely on my own recollection of what was told to me between fifty and sixty years ago when the memory of the Maori War was as fresh in the minds of adults as that of the last Great War is in the minds of adults of to-day. Further, my recollection of those days is that the Army authorities must have been very niggardly with their _V.C.’s if "Hero stories" of. many an old soldier who, on Pension Day, "shouldered his crutch and showed how fields were won" had been made known to them. Yours, etc.,
[?] P.
S.
Turua, Hauraki Plains, January 7, 1940.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 30, 19 January 1940, Page 11
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184ENSIGN McKENNA, V.C. New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 30, 19 January 1940, Page 11
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