THE ORDER OF DANILO.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume VI, Issue 355, 15 February 1917, Page 2

THE ORDER OF DANILO.

V.T.LL EARNED DECORATIONS. N EAV ZEALAND ER S HONOI' RED BY THE KIND. Ol’ MONTENEGRO NORTHERN FRANC E. 2feth. December. Among the recent vishois to tne British none in r ranee was the King! ol Montenegro, a naie and hearty | old geiiiieiiiaii who took a keen m-1 tere<-L m all he saw. Impressed with! tne successrui tuToris oi our army, j lie oifered cmtaia decorations tor! officers who bad aistmgmsned themseives m the operaiwns. ’.three of I tnese —oeeond. Fourth, and tilth i. uirfs ot mo order ot iJainio—-have < bmi co.ituricd i'i ,-pecnv eiy <>n Major ■ Geuerai oir ui. n. Kusseli, K.u.M.G I A. tiie (ot-iicial jucer com- 1 manding tne Neiv /.euianct Division : ■, major G. Barclay, V.D.. commanding a I'ield company oi mig.neers, . and Captain Al. Urquhart, of the' xaranaai iviiie.-,. al. corps kteauquarters yesterday afternoon these very hauusouiu decorations were; jin seined io tin’ n-r.jbents in tne presence oi vauous Divisional uene- ' rais and otad oinccrs by Lieutenant- > vxeneral nir Aiexauaer Gouiey. U.i.b., k.t M. 1... ix-neial Uiiiu-. Uommandiiig me acw Zealand Ex- j peaiuonary X'urce. Uenert’,l Goaley in making the presentations, sn,d: “I nave, been uepjted to lie.na to the tnese decorations presented by Ills majes.y me King ot Montenegro, and I would like to say how proud 1 Fin to do so, because they are conferred upon three officers who have served under my cOinuiand tor a long 1 1 me now, and none knows better tnan 1 now thoroughly well deserved J fuel are. Geneiai Hassell has been j one of those A,ew Zealanders who[ lias been largely instrumental m! making tne a<>w Zealand Territorial L-orces what they are at the present day, and his services in command of tne New Zealand Mounted .Rifles in New Zealand and afterwards on Gallipoli, and subsequently m command of the New Zealand Division on Gallipoli and in France, fully merit this award. You all know how well and how brilliantly he has commanded first his brigade and then his division. I

“Major Barclay is an old volunteer whose services as an officer in the New 7 Zealand Territorial Forces were most valuable. As a Lieut-Colonel in the Citizen Forces when the war broke, out, he sank his rank in order that he might command a field company in the Expeditionary Force. He did excellent work on the Peninsula and on the Somme, and I am sure there is no one who has commanded a field company of Engineers better than he.

“Captain Urquhart was for.a long time connected with a regiment—the Taranaki Rifles that fought most gallantly im the Maori Wars and that has a very high reputation in New 7 Zealand, ft is a regiment that has carried on its traditions to the top of Sari Bair on the Gallipoli Peninsula., where its colonel, known to us all as a most gallant officer, fell in the foremost Turkish trenches Captain Urquhart lias proved himself a man worthy to be a member of that regiment, and his gallant services on Gallipoli, at the Somme, and c.lso in the Boer AVar, are known to manv of vou.

“I can only refer again to the great pleasure it gives me to present these decorations which have been so well r.nd thoroughly earned,” General Godley then pinned the decorations on the tunics of the recipients, and congratulated each one upon the honour that had been conferred upon him.