PERSONAL ITEMS.
The following is au extract -from a Home paper :in reference to <saptain G.Dighton Bailey, son of Colonel C. S. Bailey, .lata of Timaru: —"Captain G. D. Bailey M.C.,lst ; Bat..' Leinster Regt. (Egypt), for .-conspicuous gal-lantj-y and determined leadership during a raid on Ghuntbeh Ridge; <£n -night of August 12-13, 1918. Pie commanded his company with great-skill and coolness tinder heavy fire: On 1 another company being thrown into disorder, he reformed it and enabled operations to be continued according to plan. lie Ted his company through, four successive assaults, oaptm-ing three machine guns, and sixty prisoners." Captain Bailey has seen' 3S- years active service, in France, Salonika, and Egypt, and never had a day's illness throughout.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CVIII, Issue 16801, 4 April 1919, Page 7
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119PERSONAL ITEMS. Timaru Herald, Volume CVIII, Issue 16801, 4 April 1919, Page 7
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