MALTA CONVOY
NEW ZEALANDERS' BRAVERY
(P.A.) WELLINGTON, Wednesday. The King has approved the following award for bravery and dauntless resolution while serving on His Majesty's ships, and aircraft-carriers, merchantmen and tankers when an important convoy was fought through to Malta in .the face of relentless attacks by'? day and night from enemy submarines, aircraft and surface forces: — Distinguished Service Cross. —Acting Temporary - Lieutenant - Commanaer (A) Arthur Bevan x% Napper, R.N.Z.N.V.R.,, of Christchurch. Temporary-Sub-Lieutenant (A) Andrew Scott Long, R.N.Z.N.V.R., V.< is mentioned in dispatches.
y? Acting - Temporary - Lieutenant - Commander: Napper gained his commission in vthesKoyal Navy Volunteer Reserve in the; United;' Kingdom in January, 1941, and 1 was'trafisferred to the R:N.Z.N.V.R., on" June 1, 1942. - In June, 1942, it was ■ announced that been mentioned in dispatches.','?;?'/, Temporary-fSul?-Lieutenant Long left New Zealand "in May, 1940, as actingshipwright, fourth class, for service in the Royal Navy, and he was promoted to his present rank in January, 1942.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 41, 18 February 1943, Page 6
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