GALLANT ACTIONS
A YOUNG AUSTRALIAN WOUNDED COMRADES RESCUED (Rec. 9.30 p.m.) SYDNEY, June 25. A 20-year-old Australian, Lancecorporal Owen George O’Connor, has been cited for gallantry in Southern Bougainville (Solomons). Lance-cor-poral O’Connor stood guard over a wounded man when three Japanese attacked with fixed bayonets. He killed them all, and then under fire carried the wounded man to safety. He returned to save a second wounded comrade, gave covering fire so that a third wounded man could escape, and finally rescued a fourth man pinned down by enemy fire. Lance-corporal O’Connor was second In command of a nine-man patrol whose task wafe to locate suspected Japanese headquarters.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25881, 27 June 1945, Page 5
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