CORPORAL FRICKLETON, V.C.

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 9, 5 October 1917, Page 6

CORPORAL FRICKLETON, V.C.

WEST COAST HERO'S EXPLOIT,

Corporal S. Mcklcton, of Blackball, *ho won the Victona Orossat Jlessine* told to Lieut. T. E. Y. Seddon, MJ?, in a simple, straightforward, manly way, witl p ei ty of references to his comrades who went \hrougli the ordeal with lum the following Miarrahve of lu» adventU"On"the morning of June 7 I was detailed as an n.c.o in charge o ia bombing nartv to proceed from the left of Ounie &e with my bombers across i,o TUnn's Land' iu the direction oi tne church at Messines. Before reaching Uhlan Trench half of my party were Zalties, only three bombers and mysplf bein<* left. We went tnrougn mo S h rage at Ulcer Support, and went straight on until we got past the Jinn third line, to what is known as .the wT 6 touching to Bth Company, . 2nd Clnterbury Battalion. From the crossroads Tllessines we spotted a movement roads at w™ l 0 f tlie o hurch, and, on top ot the del lis 01 rne Pl "ln r ' g taki^° m t b he machine-gun we were i • i.»i fi flip fire from another maS«5 ™*l. »™,,?S'.o ..ri.. =£«^^;^ piUly - ™to whfc"*e wero attached-arid T 5 " - Win? T"rest when a piece of down having a « i . ]t forearm . shrapnel got me »«« n ,lr o ssine sta- ? en Uf bole who wenfZongh *'?«: „l Vere Bifleman Manbon (who Wda SKHtary Medal Rifleman Latter, Md Biflcman Powell.