AUCKLANDER HONOURED.
&. RUSSIAN DECORATION. The Tsar of Russia has conferred the silver medal of St. George, third-class, upon Corporal Alfred Chilton Carter, of the Auckland Mounted Rifles, who left New Zealand with the main body of the Expeditionary Force in October, 1914. Corporal Carter is a son of Mr. P. R. Carter, of Honikiwi, near Otorohanga, and grandson of the late Captain John C. L. Carter, of Hawke's Bay, who served in India as a captain of the 53rd regiment of foot and in 1863' was superintendent of Hawke's Bay Province. Corporal Carter passed the (Jallipoli campaign without a scratch, and has had the same good luck in the operations in which he has since taken part.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16483, 8 March 1917, Page 8
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117AUCKLANDER HONOURED. New Zealand Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16483, 8 March 1917, Page 8
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