SOLDIER HONOURS

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 146, 2 April 1941, Page 3

SOLDIER HONOURS

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FORMER ASHBURTON RESIDENT (P.A.) WELLINGTON, April 1. The following awards to members of the New Zealand military forces, in recognition of distinguished service in the Middle East during the period from August, 1939, to November, 1940, have appeared in the Lohdort Gazette of April 1 Order of the British Empire (Military

, Division). Commander (C.B.E.)—-Colonel William George Stevens, of Wellington. Officer (0.8. E.) Major (temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) George Laurence Agar, of Wellington. Member (M.8.E.) Captain Robert Walter Dunbar; Captain Joseph Stewart King, of Heretaunga; Captain James Alexander McAlpine, of Waipara ; Captain (temporary Major) Albert. Edward Smith, of Auckland. Medal of the Military Division (for meritorious service)— Corporal Thomas Wilfred Gill, of Lower Hutt.

Military Medal. Signalman Douglas Charles Murnly, New Zealand Corps of Signals, of Feilding. Distinguished Services. The following are mentioned for distinguished services:— Brigadier Edward Puttick, of Wellington ; Colonel William George Stevens ; Lieutenant-Colonel Graham Beresford Parkinson, of Wellington; Major Kenneth Niven Todd, of Otahuhu; Captain George Grantham Good, of Kopane; Captain Walter Gordon Morrison, of Christchurch; Captain'Allan Richmond Cockerell, of Invercargill ; Captain Gordon Peak, of Christchurch ; Major (temporary) Thomas Craig Wallace, of Cambridge; Captain (temporary) Stanley Tilsley Nolan, of Hamilton; Lieutenant Kenneth John Frazer, of Wellington; Lieutenant Donald Gavin Steele, of Wellington. Matron Miss Doris Irene Brown, of Hamilton.

. Warrant Officer 2nd Class Eric Roland Firth, of Auckland; Temporary •Sergeant-Major Leslie Alexander Harding, of Christchurch; Temporary Warrant. Officer 2nd Class Stanley Copley Br&cken, of Auckland; Temporary Sergeant John Wallace Bateman of Levin ; Corporal Edmund Kennard Madigan, of Upper Moutere; Acting Lance-Cor-poral Edward John Wilton, of Thames; Acting Lance-Corporal Arthur John Moore.

Signalman Frank George Atrill, of Auckland; Private Newton Noel Bryant, of Napier; Signalman Arthur Ronald Ferguson, Rawene; Signalman Roy Mortimer Green, of Piopio; Signalman Leonard Hamilton Hunter, of Waitara ; Private Norman William Townsend ; Private John Albert Walding, of Auckland.

Captain G. G. Good is well-known in Ashburton, where he was employed for several years as a dental mechanic. He enlisted from Temulta. While lie was in Ashburton Captain Good was a Lieutenant in the C.Y.C. and left for the Middle East with the Ist Echelon and was for a long time engaged in desert reconnaissance work. Captain Good was born in Invercargill.