ON ACTIVE SERVICE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16980, 14 October 1918, Page 6

ON ACTIVE SERVICE.

NOTES ON NEW ZEALANDERB. AWARDS AND DECORATIONS. ,■■ [fbom ottb own corbespondent.] " LONDON, Sept. }• . Lieutenant, J. S. S. Seddon, R.F.A., is ' back on leave from the Italian front, and is .taking advantage of the opportunity to settle the affairs of his brother, the lato Captani R. J. S. Beddon. Lieutenant .- Seddon has been 44 months in the.line. Sergeant M. McLennan, Tank Corps, a an Aucklander. He is at present laid up with bronchial pneumonia." at a French•C.O.S. V. Engineer-Sub-Lieutenanfc ( Oscar H. \ Wright, R.N.R., on duty in H.M.S, Paris, . \ belongs to Devonport. He was formerly - in the Auckland Infantry, but took hiJ discharge from the Now Zealand Expeditionary Force for a Royal Naval Reserve commission in December, 1916. C.M.M. G. K. Hansard, R.N.V.R., of Auckland, is mow attached to an M.L., operating out of a western port Mr. ■ Hansard served in the Samoan Force. Miss E. M. Ernest, Auckland,' served for more than three years as a V.AD. in British medical hospitals in France,, and is now awaiting a ship to return to New Zealand. She was mentioned in despatches in 1916, and awarded the Ropl Red Cross last year. '■ Captain H. J. Duff, M.C., Keren, | H. 8., has the acting rank of major while ( on the headquarters of a British battalion. Captain Noel S. Johnson, Wellington, who was awarded one of the soldier > scholarships at the beginning of the year to study law at Magdalen College, Oxford, I is returning to New Zealand. e j C.M.M. H. Driver, R.N.V.R., Wat ! paws, is now attached to the Royal Navy depot at Port Said. He was for a considerable time at an east coast base. In consequence of ilkiealth, Second" ■ Lieutenant W. G. Saxby, R.F.A.. Tokomaru Bay. has been obliged to relinquish his commission. He is granted the hon. rank of second lieutenant. He rrrived in the middle of 1916 from New Zealand, took his training course at the R-H.A-Barracks at St. John's Wood, and ob- , tained his R.F.A. commission at the end of 1916. Mr. Kiri W. Wade, lato of the New Zealand Pioneer Battalion, now in the navy, is second officer in H.M.S. Birchol. Services in the blocking of Ostecd and Zeebrugge continue to be recognised » the official Gazettes. Lieutenant C. F. B. [ Bowlby, R.N., who wae a midshipman in I H.M.S. New Zealand, got the D.S.O. M , the earlier operations, and has now been awarded a bar for services in the second blocking of-Ostend. In a coastal «M«J boat he ran up to the entrance ahead or the Vindictive, and fired a torpedo at- short range at one of the piers, ihe explosion shook the boat eo severely that she began to sink, and Lieutenant Bowlby .got m* I leak stopped and the engines going m •brought her out of the fire zone M , D.S.M. is awarded to C.M.M/s. Leonard..- . E. McQueen and Leslie R. McGinJey, Wp;,, of Auckland, for coolness under fife. fcOrfer 3 Won Roger Buddie, R.N.. Auckland, *«»,-. .._:-. has been serving in the navy almost from the beginning of the war, is mentioned tor • ; good service in caring for the wOundCO > and transportation at sea in both raids. . jg| . ... ■ sssssi , V^Si