A cable message to the Australian papers, under date of the Bth inst.,. states:—Peggy Fisher, a land-girl, was married to-day to the discharged soldier whom she rescued from a bull. Twelve land-girls drew her to the church in a farm cart Peggy Fisher won a medal and a husband by tackling a -bull which was goring a discharged soldier who worked on the same farm. Miss Fisher kicked the animal's snout with her heaxy hob-nailed boots until the animal ran away. For this she was awarded the Distinguished Service Bar called the Victoria -Cross of tihe Land Army.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3430, 9 December 1919, Page 6
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