DOMINION WAR NEWS.

Timaru Herald, Volume CVIII, Issue 16714, 23 January 1919, Page 11

DOMINION WAR NEWS.

—T-— — MHJTARYMEDALS AWARDED TO SOUTH CANTERBURY Ml®. Mr W. Lund, "40 ' Norwich Street, Christcliurcli, lias received, information from Sir James Allen,. .Minister of Defence, that his son Corporal Walter Lund has,,been awarded tlio Military Medal .for. gallantry., in the fielkl ■" ot" action. Oorporal Lund was born at» i Pleasant Point and was j educated there. He worked' for Mr .Tames Stewart, Twtara< for .many years..! Corporal I-aifld was .wounded ou three separate. occasions, and -was in charge of a Lews gun squad at the » time of performing the gallant action which gainod for llim tibe • MilStttrjr. M'fedal. Oils-of his brothers went "with the Australian ! Main Body to Egypt, was invalided, and re-enlisted wji.U the New Zealand twenty-fifth Reinforcements. Another brother left with/'this, Sixth., and .tlfn third left with the Seventh. The family i-twra-^VpaireiutuTiry-jjotja: 6a"e.-j LJi( i l -6 >. ei e ri.jg-*Boys in xTit ~taaots % -TSv/n i .i-urv-ea in. tnc ±soCi - ' \vVir, <K,o"ui: -;v:u.Oiu : <.L-ea- oi taciixiiisii., j.ii tile prest-nt i s-x 'cMiiiSDea, ami two 1 aiied tu j/uss j th-e mea'icui 'tostj. the other ioar gervuu" i! its fcrtatta. jL'ne-youngest biocJier j t.d t>i> wie .Dominion six .months Three of tlhe brothers were .wounqcci and tlie fourtJii was parsed.. '• . Mil'sL. Pierce, of LeC'rcn. Street lias been.. advised'., by tlife AlmVstcr ot : p c _ .fence that her- son, Sergeant A. J. 'l3. Pierce, ,has .been .awarded,-the Military Medal for gallantry on the tioAl. Sergeant Pierce enfisted. at Gorulrluie andleft with the seventeenth uouitorco meats. ........ . _ —— ; — V#,% ;• RETURNING HOME. Mrs Gabiites, LoOreu Street, I'iniarn, lias received w.ord that her sou, Major E. M. Gabites, 'who left with the Main Body, is returning home by the Briton, clue to arrive on Tuesday, 28th. Others who have received notice oE returning relatives are: —Mr I'V Mo-. Tague, two brothers, Corporal T. H. McTague, 16ths. and Ttiflemsui A. McTague, 12ths; Mr .T. Bowden, HuntStreet-: his son Rifleman H. J. Bow'den, discharged from hospital in England in November last; Mr and Mrs A. G. Ennis, Hassall Street: their son, Private A. If. Ennis, 33rds, bv draft 207; Mr AV. B. Andrew, Pleasant Point: his son. Rifleman W. Andrew. Mrs M. Eediy, Regent St. has received word frot'n the Defence Offic? that her son, Private J , Eee'ey, was admitted to hospital in England ill January 10th, with diphtheria. He had previously been in, hospital for the lo;=s of a leg.