NEW ZEALAND AWARDS.

Evening Star, Issue 16675, 6 March 1918, Page 4

NEW ZEALAND AWARDS.

Australian and N.Z. Cable Association and Eeuter. LONDON. March 5. (Received March 6, at 1.10 p.m.) The bar to the Distinguished Service Order has been awarded to Lieutonantcolonel V. M'Carroll, New Zealand Mounteds ; th? Military Cross to Lieutenant J. It. Foley, a New'Zealandex ; and 12 Distinguished Conduct Medals to New Zeakvnders. Lance-corporal Robert Rae, 35 Meadow street, Mornington. died of wounds in France on February 16; aged 32 years. He had maintained an interest matters since his school cadet days, and wife be remembered by the Dunedin Engineer Volunteer Company as an efficient marksman. While in Masterton he enlisted in the Otago Infantry, ord Reinforcements (Main Body), and served with the Anzacs until wounded on August 8, 1915. From Gallipoli be returned to Dunedin. ' After a few months' spell in Mornington, he again felt well enough to rejoin his brother and mates at the front, and managed to get back there with the 10th Reinforcements, and arrived in France. He got through without sickness or mishap till he received his fatal wounds. He was one of the comparatively few Main Body men left in the firing line.