CROIX DE GUERRE

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 173, 11 April 1918, Page 6

CROIX DE GUERRE

RECENT WAR HONOURS NEW ZEALAND RECIPIENTS The Base Records Office supplies the following list of New Zealnnders who hnvo had the Croix de Guerre conferred upon them:— 23/2 Lieutenant-Colonel William S. Austin. D.5.0., on active service (Mrs. C. Austin, wife, Greymoutli). 23<27 Major Peter' H. Bell, on active service (Mrs. M. V. Bell, wife, Gonville, Wangamii). 23/1 Brevet Lioutenant-Colonel (Temp. Brigadier-General) Harry T. Fulton, 0.M.G., D.5.0., died of concussion, March 29, 1918 (22/192 Nurse Ada Hermina Fulton, wife, N.Z. General Hospital, Brockeniiurst, England). 11/680 Lieutenant-Colonel George A. King, D.5.0., killed in action. October 12, 1917 (Mrs. A. L. King, wife, Hamilton). 23/10 Major Robert 0. Purely, M.C., killed in action, March 525, 1918 (Mrs. N. A. Purdy, wife, c/o High Commissioner for New Zealand, London; Colonel' Purdy, Lower Hutt). 23/1203 Lieutenant-Colonel Joseph G. Roache, D.5.0., on activo service (Mrs. Mary Roache, wife, Sydney). 24/1 Lieutenant-Colonel (Temp. Colonel) . Alexander E. Stewart, D.5.0., on activo service (Mrs. A. C. Stewart, wife, Milton). 15,888 Rifleman Stanley R. Furby, discharged April 3, 1918 (Mrs. A. S. , Furby, mother, Tiniaru). 33,061 Sergeant Terence Jones, killed in action, .July 12, 1917 (Mrs. J. R. Jones, mother, Gisborne). 20,680 Private Toi Karini, returned to New Zealand (Harm. Karini, father, Tolago Bay). 22,685 Rifleman Albert Longhlin, on active service (W. Boniface, brother-in-law, 7 Holloway Road, Mitchelltown). 35,214 Rifleman Thomas C. M'Donald, ■ died of wounds, July 14, 1917 (Mrs. Annie M'Donald, mother, Auokland). 25/448 Rifleman George M'Naught, on aotive service (Mrs. M'Pherson, sister, Glasgow). 38,564 Rifleman John Moore, on active j service (W. Grainger, Waipukurau). 26/623 Sergeant Maurice J. Rillstone, on active service (Mrs. A. M. Rillstone, wife, Caversham, Dunedin). 14,163 Rifleman Henry Shellam, returned March 16, 1918 (Mrs. M. P. Shellam, wife, Grey Lynn, Auckland). 12,502 Rifleman Samuel Sturgess, on active service -(Mrs. E. Sturgess, mother, Berkshire, England). 20,862 Private Puia Tamehana, on active service (Rerekai Tamehana, mother, Ruatoki). 23,281 Rifleman Charles H. Warren, returned (Mrs. Readon, sister, Oneftunga). 24/938 Rifleman Frank C. Wotten, killed in action, July 13, 1917 (Mrs. M. A. Wotten, mother, Ashburton).