ROLL OF HONOUR.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 13, 15 January 1916, Page 6

ROLL OF HONOUR.

( r CABEEBS OF TB_ FALLEN. c TROOPER L. ARMSTRONG. D.CM. * There is every probability that Trooper f L Armstrong, Whose name appears n 1 the last honours lift as the recipient of * a Distinguished Conduct Medal, is Tpr. " (or now Lance-Corporal) Leonard Arm- '" strong, eldest son of Mr. L. J. Armstrong, " Argylc Street, Morningside. "^o»_ Armstrong was wounded during the'first i. three months of the wax, while serving with the machine gun section of ,the r Auckland Regiment of Mounted Rifles. 6 At the time notice of his casualty came " through there was glowing comment I upon the courage he i had displayed in action with the machine gun party, lip 7 particularly distinguished himself by " lone-handed heroism when the section I was in a tight corner. He.was sent to England for hospital treatment, and're; ~ covered, and so far as is known; he rep joined his regiment about two months 7 a<*o. Lcc-Corpl. Armstrong is' sin Auck- ? land boy, 27 years of age, and was working for Hutchinson Bros, when he. en--1 listed with the main body of the Expeditionary Force. He was brought up on 8 his fathpr's farm at Titirangi, and is an ? expert with horses.