GALLANT DEEDS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 122, 22 April 1940, Page 7

GALLANT DEEDS.

SOLDIERS DECORATED. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, April 19. An outstanding act of courage resulted in the immediate award of the Military Medal in Franco to LanceCorporal Gallacher, Lancashire Fusiliers. When Gallacher’s section was in a post on the look-out for the enemy just before dawn, a fusilier, thinking lie heard Germans approaching, snatched a hand grenade and drew out tlie pin, read to throw it The grenade, however, caught against his leg and fell into the bottom of the trench, disappearing in the mud under the duckboard. Gallacher tried to locate the grenade by groping with his hands. Then lie suddenly felt a hard object under his foot, which was obviously the grenade, but there w:v. no time to pick it up. So he pushed it hard down into the mud under tlie duckboard with his foot while the other men took what cover they could. The grenade exploded and Gallacher was only slightly wounded, while the other men were uninjured, though nearby sandbags burst with the explosion. Immediate awards for gallantry in France were also made to Lieutenant Hudson. Lancashire Fusiliers, who received the Military Cross, and Fusilier Worsley, of the same regiment, who received the Military Medal.