NEW ZEALANDER WINS V.C.
CAPTURED MACHINE-GUNS.
DEATH OF GALLANT SOLDIER. Reuter. LONDON, June 8. Tho Victoria Cross has been awarded to the late Sergeant Donald Forrester Brown, New Zealand Infantry. The distinction was gained while he was a private. The official notice in the London Gazette states that Private Brown's company had very heavy casualties among officers and men from machine-gun fire. Private Brown, with a, comrade, reached within 30yds of the enemy guns, killed four of the gun crew, and captured the gun. Tho company was again similarly hold up, and Private Brown and ay comrade, with great gallantry, rushed the gun and killed the crew. The company was then heavily shelled. Private Brown's contempt of danger and coolness kept up the men's spirits. , Subsequently, as a sergeant, Brown made a single-handed attack upon a machine-gun, killed the crew, and cap. tured the gun. Later while sniping a retreating enemy this gallant soldier was killed.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16562, 11 June 1917, Page 6
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156NEW ZEALANDER WINS V.C. New Zealand Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16562, 11 June 1917, Page 6
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