A MAJOR'S GALLANTRY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18547, 3 November 1923, Page 3 (Supplement)

A MAJOR'S GALLANTRY.

*l — WAR INCIDP»'T PECALLFO. ?pm during the 'war is revealed bv the announcement, fir? year* afterwards, of an honour bestowed .on Major* Willougby Lugard Hog-;, D.5.0., formerly of the Indian Army. The Kin? lias awarded him. on the recommendation of the Board of Trade, the bronze medal 'for gallantry. ' Mfljdr K<og': yrns in command of a detachment of 3rd 'Brahmins at "Muscat, on the I'ersisn Gulf. when, on May 10. 1918, lie received word that the steamer Oruro\ya« on fire. . •'., With 100 men of his regiment he. went on board the vessel, and found the lire wa«iapidly gaining irronnd. Durint the operations which followed Major Ho<re and a Lascar were standing on a wood hatchway when the main beam eoliansed, precipitating them Both into the ho'd below. The officer imbed tin the steel perpendicular lndder, Hitch wa« very hot. and regained the deck, : calling to the L.P B «*ar to follow, but he failed to do so. Thereupon Major Hoitc sat s astride tit©' coamiiiT of the hatchway, and. binding down, hailed the Lflfw to Fs'ety. deso't-" the great he - t* end suffocating fumes co'Tiiwr fiv-iin the hold. Tt v.as !>Un mainly duo to Major Hf'cr * skill in directing salvage operations that the vessel, with her valuable cargo.- was ''"'H from destruction, and that no loss of life occurred.