HEROISM OF CHAFFEUR.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18901, 26 December 1924, Page 7

HEROISM OF CHAFFEUR.

MURDER OF SIR LEE STACK. DECORATION FOR BRAVERY. A. and N.Z. CAIRO. Dec. 215. Viscount Allenby. High Commissioner for Egypt, at the Residency in the presence of the principal officials, presented Fred March with the silver medal of the Order of the Empire, and a cheque for SCOO Egyptian pounds (about £5000). Lord Allenby paid a tribute to March's remarkable coolness and courage at the moment of attack on the Sirdar, Major-General Sir Lee Stack. He almost succeeded in saving the Sirdar's life.

It is remarkable that the dastardly act which resulted in the death of Sir Lee Stack has both an Australian and a NewZealand significance. In the first place, the Sirdar's chauffeur, who behaved with such coolness and pluck, was an Australian named Fred March. Ihe aide-de-camp, Captain Patrick Kinlock Campbell, who was also wounded, is the eldest son of the late Mr. Patrick Campbell, > f Christchurch. He was educated at Christ's College and afterwards at Cheltenham College, in England, where his parents lived for some years, and where his father died. Mrs Campbell then returned to New Zealand. Captain Campbell en tfred the Black Watch in 1913. and was wounded in 1914 at the Aisne, In .July of 1910 he was wounded, and at f.oos in September of the same year. In September of 1917 he was seconded for duty with the Egyptian Army. Alter the war had ended he remained in Egypt and held various appointments until he was selected as aide de-camp to Sir l.ec Stack