MILITARY MEDALS
AWARDS TO DRIVERS TWO FORMER PRISONERS (P.A.) WELLINGTON, this day. Advice that the King has approved the award of the Military Medal to two members of the Second N.Z.E.F. in the Middle East has been received by the Minister of Defence, Mr. Jones. They are: Driver Edward John Allen Phelan (Mr. F. A. Phelan, Auckland, father), and Driver Earle Reginald Silverwood, of Hastings. Drivers Phelan and Silverwood, who are members of the same unit, were posted missing in Greece on June 17, 1941, and were later officially reported prisoners of war. In January of this year advice was received that they were safe in the United Kingdom. In civil life Driver Phelan who is 26, was a motor driver, and he went overseas with the Echelon. Driver Silverwood is 2a, and was a. panelbeater employed in Wellington. He also sailed with the First Echelon.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXV, Issue 98, 27 April 1944, Page 6
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