VICAR’S V.C. STOLEN
7'?— 1 ■ MEDALS TAKEN FROM SAFE. LQNDON. Mav 2. Tho Victoria Cross, - which he won at St. Eloj, YprCs, in 1916, was among articles slbien from the house of the Rev. J2dwp.rd'Nb.e! Mellish, Vicar of Dupjn.oy/ yesterday. The thieves, after forcing a window
in the vicarage, carried tlie vicar's safe containing his war medals from his study and broke.it open some distance from the iiouseV;. The thieves also took the vicar’s Military Cross and £2 in cash. Mr. Mellish won the V.C. in March, 19.16, when lie a temporary chaplain to the force?. Under a hail of shell and machine-gun fire he tended and respued wounded men during three consecutive days of heavy fighting.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 13 June 1936, Page 5
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