NEW ZEALAND V.C. HERO.
CAPTAIN STORKEY RETURNS
VISIT TO HIS HOME.
Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Reed. 5.5 p.m.) SYDNEY. Dec. 22. Captain P. V. Storkcy, V.C., has arrived on the way to his home at Napier. He was welcomed by the University representatives.
Captain P. V. Storkey is a son of Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Storkey, of Napier, and has been serving with the Australians. The official statement of the manner in which ho won the Victoria Cross is as follows:—" When commanding an attacking platoon he observed, on emerging from a wood, 80 or 100 Germans, with several machine-guns, holding up the advance of the troops on his right. He had only six men, but Lieutenant Lipscomb, with four men, joined him, and he decided to attack the enemy flank and rear. The two officers and the 10 men charged with the bayonet, Lieutenant Storkey—as he then was—in the lead, and expelled the enemy. They killed or wounded 30, and captured three officers and 50 men and the machin ' guns. Lieutenant Storkey's courage and promptness and the skilful attack removed a dangerous obstacle to the advance, and v-«re a great inspiration to the remainder of the party."
Captain Storkey, who was born in Napier 26 years ago, went to Australia in 1912, and was employed as a clerk in the university at Sydney while studying for law. He left for the front in 1915, and was one of the famous Australian Fiftli Brigade, which has done a great deal of the hard fighting which has come the way of the Australians. He was wounded seriously about two years ago. Immediately on recovering he returned to the lines of the Fighting Fifth, and did work which caused him to bo specially mentioned in despatches.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17040, 23 December 1918, Page 7
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