HIGHEST HONOUR.
Fijian Receives French V.C. for War Episode. PRESENTED BY GOVERNOR. (Received 10.30 a.m.) SUVA, this day. Yesterday Major Joske, French, consular agent at Fiji, requested the Governor, Sir Murchison Fletcher, to present to Ratu J. L. V. Sukuna, Government District Commissioner, the Medaille Militaire of France. Sukuna was a student at Oxford in 1914 but was unable to enlist in the British Army and joined the French Foreign Legion. He was in the attack in Champagne before Fort Navarin in December, 1914, from which only 35 men returned out of 2500 in his battalion. Thie Medaille Militaire is the highest honour France gives to her soldier and ranks with the V.C.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 261, 3 November 1932, Page 7
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113HIGHEST HONOUR. Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 261, 3 November 1932, Page 7
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