AWARDS FOR BRAVERY
New Zealand Soldiers Advice that the King has approved of tlx following awards to two Second N.Z.E.F. (Middle Fast) personnel in recognition of gallant and distinguished service in the field has been received by the Prime Minister, Mr. Fraser: — Bar to Military Cross. Captain Colin Norman Armstrong, M.C. Next of kin : Mr. N. G/ Armstrong (lather), 12 Wicksteed Place, Wanganui. Distinguished Conduct Medal. Sergeant Bruce Joshua Crowley. Next of kin: Mrs. M. Crowley (mother), 386 Manukau Hoad, Epsoip, Auckland. Both soldiers arc ex-prisoners of war who escaped to the United Kingdom recmtly and travelled to Egypt in time to join the second furlough draft en route for New Zealand. Captain Armstrong, who gained his commission in Now Zealand in November. 1939, went overseas with the second echelon as a subaltern in a Wellington infantry battalion. He was reported missing in the Western Desert in December; 1941, and after a period as prisoner of war in Italy was transferred to Germany, whence he escaped. He was awarded tlu; Military Cross in December, I£4l. He is a barrister and solicitor, and before the war was in practice in Wanganui. Sergeant Crowley left New Zealand with the first echelon. He was posted ■missing on Crete in May, 1941, and was later reported prisoner of war. Before the war he was in the butchery business at Auckland.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 123, 19 February 1944, Page 6
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