GALLANTRY OF TWO NEW ZEALANDERS.
BLOWING UP A BLOCKHOUSE
WELLINGTON, July 23. Major-'Goneral Sir Alexander Godley, in a letter to ths Minister of Defence, states: —
I "I have recommended two New Zealand Engineers—Lance-Corporal .bear (we think •his name will have to be changed) and Private Hodges—for most conspicuous gallantry in volunteering and going out one night in the face ol; a very heavy fire and blowing up with guncotton a blockhouse which the Turks had built close to our trenches, and from which we were getting much annoyance."
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXV, Issue 8201, 26 July 1915, Page 5
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