MORE AWARDS

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 16, 20 January 1942, Page 6

MORE AWARDS

FORCES OVERSEAS

SERVICE IN MIDDLE EAST

A. list of seventeen awards and decorations conferred on New Zealand personnel for service in the Middle East was announced last evening by the Prime Minister (Mr. Fraser). The list is' as under, the name of the recipient being followed by that of his next-of-kin:— . Distinguished Service Order. Major Claude Herman Sawyers, NiZ.A. Mrs. K. Sawyers, 309 Remuera Road, Remuera, Auckland (w.). . Military Cross. Captain Denver James Fountaine, Inf. Bde. Mr. J. C. Fountaine, 106 Derby Street, Westport (f.). Lieutenant George Lacey Lee (died of wounds). M.G. Bh. Dr. Clara Lee, Psychiatric Clinic. Broughton Hall, Wharf Road, Leichhardt, Sydney (widow). " Lieutenant Cyril Stennart Pepper,

2/Lieutenant Charles Harold Cathie, Inf. B^e. Mr. W. E. Cathie, 45 Waipapa Road,' Hataitai (f.). 2/Lieutenant Albert Ronald Guthrey, Inf. Bde. Mrs. C. H. Guthrey, P.O. Box 42, Hbkitika (m.). Distinguished Conduct Medal. Bombardier Ronald Leslie Burk, N.Z.A. Mr. B. Burk, 37 Greenlane Road, Remuera (f.). T/Sergeant George MacMillan Dodds, Inf. Bde. Mrs. E. Dodds, Gladstone Road, Mosgiel (m.). Private William Douglas Friday, Inf. Bde. Mrs. K. Friday, Poro-o-tarao, K.C. (m.). •Private Graham Henry Goad, Inf. Bde. Mir. C. E. Goad, Una View. Irishtown. Thames (f.). Sergeant Harry Redfearn Martin, Inf. Ede. Mrs. E. Ames, Wharekaka, Tolaga Bay im.). Gunner Colin Joseph Winthrop. N.Z.A. ■ Mrs. A. Winthrop, 57 Leigh ton Street. Avonside. Chnstchurch (m.). Military Mefial. W.O. II Phillip George, N.Z.A. Mrs. M. W George, 52 Douglas Street, St. Kilda. Dunedin \w.). Bombardier Thomas Maxwell Hutchmson, N.Z. \. Mrs. J. M. Hutchinson. 0 Millar Street, Napier (m.). L/Cpl. Caryille MunroT N.Z.M.C. Mr. A R.'Munro. Taihape (grandfather). Gunner Richard Wixon, N.Z.A. Mrs. S. King. Barrow Street, Bluff (aunt).