MISCELLANEOUS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIX, Issue 248, 19 October 1915, Page 5

MISCELLANEOUS.

VICTORIA CROSS AWARDS

THE AUSTRALASIANS

DELIGHTED.

(Received Oct. 13, 8.10 p.m.) LONDON, Oct. 18. Australian sinO New Zealand wounded in Britain are delighted over the award of nine Victoria Crosses, which has been given prcminenco in all the newspapers a,nd has called forth many tributes to Australasian bravery. Members of the Seventh Battalion axe delighted to recall that .Lieutenants Tub!) and. Symons • were with the original landing force, of whom it is believed not 5 per cent, are. mow unscathed. Men who were at Lone Pine state that Captain Shout was doing incredible things, though he never risked his "life to no purpose. Tt gave anybody good heart to sec Mm stnjk through the undergrowth. Oaptr in Shout leaves a widow and a. ten-.vear.okl daughter. Besides his bravery at Lone Pine, he displayed great courage and self-sacrifice two days after the landing at Gaba Tepe. A returned soldier relatp.s th-ob, jiEthongh wounded himself several times, fVrotiin * Shout kept pidung up wounded and canying them out ol the firing line. ire (the soldier) saw him carry fully a dozen away, lhen another bullet struck him in the arm nnd it fell usjhcss liy his side, but lie absolutely '-ef'ssed to go to the rear. A little later he was agnin wounded and fell. He declared that he was wing to remain with the boys to the Snish. He rose, staggered, and tell several times, and finally his oom-r-vdes, despite his protests, , carvieii him to safety.