WAR DECORATIONS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16344, 26 September 1916, Page 9

WAR DECORATIONS.

MILITARY CROSS WINNER. CAPTAIN JOHN COWLES. SIX BROTHERS IX KHAKI. Captain' John Cowxr.?, whose name appeared in yesterday's list of New Zealand j recipients of the Military Cross, is the j youngest son of .Mr. Cowles, who was formerly headmaster of the Richmond j school, Nelson, and one of his brothers i* Mr. E. P. Cowles, a telegraph engineer, of Hamilton. He is unmarried and 32 years of age. Formerly he was a member of the- Wellington College Rifles. On | the- outbreak of the war he volunteered, I and spent eight months at Samoa. On bis return to New Zealand ho joined the Rifle Brigade. He took part in three! engagements against the Senussi in lv'vpt, and later on was sent to France.: Four of his brothers are also serving with j the forces, while another brother is now j on tho way to the front, and yet another will leave New Zealand with the twentyfourth reinforcements. BOMBARDIER KUHTZ. Bombardier Ivuhtz, whose name appeared in the list of New Zealanders to whom the Military Medal was awarded last week—though it was mutilated in telegraphing into Kulitz—is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Kuhtz, of Ulster Street, Hamilton. Before enlistment ho was a member of tho 0 Battery, Hamilton, and he left jNew Zealand with tho main body of tho Expeditionary F.QK&