A VERY GALLANT SOLDIER
POSTHUMOUS V.C. FOR NEW
ZEALANDER
(Received Sep. 28, 12.10 p.m.) , . LONDON, Sep. 27. ! A Victoria Cross has been/awarded to Sergeant R. C. Travis, late of the Otago Regiment, who volunteered to destroy an impassable wire block. He crawled out at daylight in close proximity to enemy posts, and successfully destroyed the block with, bombe, enabling attacking parties to pass. A few minutes later two enemy machine-guns held up one of our bombing parties, endangering the success of whole operation, and Travis, utterly disregarding the danger, rushed the position, killed the crew, and captured the guns. An enemy officer and three men attempted to retake the guns, but 'Travis killed them single-handed. Travis was killed 24 hours later when going from post to post encouraging the men under a most intense enemy bombardment.—Aus.-N.Z. C.A. and fieuter.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 28 September 1918, Page 7
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139A VERY GALLANT SOLDIER Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 28 September 1918, Page 7
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