BRAVERY REWARDED.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 143, 16 June 1917, Page 6

BRAVERY REWARDED.

* GALLANT NEW ZEALANDER. SOME AJttAZING FEATS. \, Received 3 p.m.) LONDON. June r>. Included in five new Victoria Crosses t one t" !»erge»-t Donald Brown. New Zealand Infantiy for most conspicuous brayrry an<l determination in attack. a to which he belonged bad r-miWeii \eiy heavy casualties in. otiuiM- and men ironi machine-gun tiro. •t great per-onal risk. Brown advanced witk a L'Ouiraile. and succeeded -.:i reaching a puiut within thirty jar.X " ,'■; tin- pnciny iruns. He killoi'. lour "i a Ocnnan pun trew and capl.ircd l.'if pun. Subriiiut-ntly, when h.e i-oinpany »a- ajrain held up by lire Brown and a comrade, by great gallantry, rushed thi- j;un and killed til-.- rrew. After this second position had boen won his company came under very heavy ,~iieil lirt , . and, by utter contempt nf danger and n.olne>?. Broun did miX-li to keep up thr .-jin-it* of his men. In a subsequent attack. Brown eh»«pd most conspicuous jrallantry. He attacked, single Handed, a. machine-gun ■nhicli was holding up our attack, killed the pin ere.*, and raptured the pun. T'.:Ls wry gallant soldier was killcl later whife enipui;. the retreatin-; enemy.—iKcutiT.)