SOVIET MEDAL FOR VALOUR
CORPORAL JOHN DENVIR Wellington, April 13. Advice has been received that Corporal John Denvir. of the Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force, whose remarkable adventures wjtb .th* {Yugoslavian Partisan Army, in which ne was a battalion commander for a period, were recently published, has been awarded the Soviet Medal for Valour. Corporal Denvir enlisted shortly after the outbreak of the war and went to the Middle East with the Second Echelon. He fought in Libya and then in Greece, where he was taken prisoner by the Germans. He escaped and joined the Yugoslav Partisans. He was officially presumed dead for a year. He is now back with the New Zealand forces. His wife, Mrs E. J. Denvir, lives at Christchurch. —P.A.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 79, 15 April 1944, Page 4
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