OTHER DECORATIONS.

Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 12, 13 July 1918, Page 7

OTHER DECORATIONS.

LONDON, 30th April. Commander (acting-captain) A. E. Dunn, R.D., R.N.R., formerly Assistant Marine Superintendent in London of the New Zealand " Shipping Company, who has been on special service since the beginning of the war, has had conferred upon him the decoration of Officer of the, Order of the Redeemer by the King of the Hellenes. Captain Dunn was formerly chief officer of the Tongariro and the Rotorua, and captain of the Rakaia. At the time of the Dardanelles expedition he did valuable work minesweeping, and in 1915 had conferred upon him by the King the Officers' Decoration, while he was congratulated by Vice-Admiral J. M. de Roebeck in connection with the work of minelaying in the_ Persian Gulf. Last year he was mentioned in despatches.

Flight-Lieutenant Evan Dickson, D.S.C., R.N.A.S. (Thames), ha? had a bar to that decoration conferred upon him. From information now available it is known that tho bar was' given in connection with attacking enemy aircraft and hi carrying out bombing raids. "On 16th March, 1918, he went to the assistance of a machine of his formation which was being attacked at close quarters by twelve enemy scouts. Despite the fact that all the guns on his machine were useless owing to lack of ammunition, he turned and charged the hostile formation, splitting it up. and diverting thoir attention from the other machine, thus undoubtedly saving it. On other occasions he has brought down enemy machines and taken part in many daylight bombing raids, at all *,imes showing utter fearlessness and great determination."