N.Z. Men Overseas Win Distinguished Service Awards

Northern Advocate, 2 April 1941, Page 9

N.Z. Men Overseas Win Distinguished Service Awards

[Per Press Association. Copyright.] WELLINGTON, This Day.

Several awards to members of the New Zealand Military Forces in recognition of distinguished service in the Middle East during the period from August, 1939, to November, 1940, appeared in the London Gazette, 01 April 1. The list is os follows: C.B.E. (Military Division).— Colonel William George Stevens. His wife is Mrs G. C. D. Stevens, of Wellington. O.D.E. (Military Division).— Major (temporary Lieut.-Colonel) George Lawrence Agar. Wife, Mrs E. E. Agar, of Wellington. M.B.E. (Military Division) .—Captain Robert Walter Dunbar. Daughter, Miss M. S. Dunbar, of Rotorua; Captain Joseph Stewart King. Wife, Mrs D. J. King, of Heretaunga; Captain James Alexander McAlpine. Mother, Mrs W. K. McAlpine, of Waipara; Captain (temp. Major) Alfred Edward Smith. Wife, Mrs L. M. Smith, of Auckland. Medal (Military Division), 0.8. E. (for meritorious service) . —Corporal Thomas Wilfrid Gill. Wife, Mrs Rose Gill, of Lower Hutt.

Military Medal— Signalman Douglas Charles Mundy, New Zealand Corps ol' Signals. Brother, Mr G. Mundy, of Feilding. Mentioned for Distinguished Services.—Brigadier Edward Puttick, Wife, Mrs I. L. Puttick, of Wellington; Colonel William George Stevens; Lieut.-Colonel Graham Beresford Parkinson. Wife, Mrs B. W. Parkinson, of Wellington; Major Kenneth Niven Todd. Wife, Mrs R. Todd, of Otahiffin; Captain George Grantham Good. Father, Mr C. G. Good, of Kopane; Captain Walter Gordon Morrison. Wife, Mrs E. W. Morrison, of Christchurch; Captain Allan Richmond Cockerell. Wife, Mrs G. Cockerell, of Invercargill; Captain Gordon Peek. Wife, Mrs D. M. Peek, of Christchurch; Temporary Major Thomas Craig Wallace. Wife, Mrs M. L. Wallace, of Cambridge; Temporary Captain Stanley Tilsley Nolan. Wife, Mrs M. Nolan, of Hamilton; Lieutenant Kenneth John Fraser. Mother, Lady Fraser, of Wellington; Lieutenant Donald Gavin Steele. Mother, Mrs W. D. Steele, of Wellington; Mati’on Miss Doris Irene Brown. Mother, Mrs G. Brown, of Tauwhare, Hamilton. Warrant Officer Eric Roland Firth. Wife, Mrs S. R. Firth, of Auckland; Temporary Sergeant-Major Leslie Alexander Harding. Wife, Mrs S. A. Harding, of Christchurch; Temporary Warrant Officer Stanley Copley Bracken. Mother, Mrs C. Bracken, of Auckland; Temporary Sergeant John Wallace Bateman. Father, Mr J. B. Bateman, of Levin; Corporal Edmund Kannard Madigan. Wife, Mrs E. E„. Madigan, of Upper Moutere; Acting Lance Corporal Edwin John Wilton. Father, Mr E. J. Wilton, of Thames; Acting Lance Corporal Arthur John Moore. Wife, Mrs K. M. Moore, of New South Wales; Signalman Frank George Attrill. Wife, Mrs E. Attrill, of Auckland; Private Newton Noel Bryant. Mother, Mrs E. J. Bryant, of Napier. Signalman Arthur Ronald Ferguson. Father. Mr E. R. Ferguson, of Rawene; Signalman Roy Mortimer Green. Wife, Mrs J. M. Green, of Fiopio; Sigpalman Leonard Hamilton Hunter. Mother, Mrs C. A. Hunter, ol Waitara; Private Norman William Townsend. Mother, Mrs Townsend, of Bangor, Northern Ireland; Private John Albert Walding. Wife, Mrs J. A. Waiding, of Auckland.