V.C. HERO.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 11281, 8 January 1915, Page 4

V.C. HERO.

( Sergeant-Major White, of the Army Service Corps, has been recommended lor the \ ictoria Cross lor gallantry at Le Cateau. The following is his own account of the incident for which he lias been recommended for the most coveted decoration bestowed on British soldiers: "We got orders at 9.15 at night to move a convoy in charge of a captain. We had' not got far before we ran into an ambus)) ol : uhlans, who gave it to us hot. We were outnumbered. and 1 have a distinct, recollection of having a go at four with mv sword, and accounting for them. But we had to retire. When we reached a place where we could pull ourselves together an officer asked if anyone had seen the captain. On hearing that he had been shot down. 1 said that 1 would go back for him. I went hack, and found him lying in the iiekl where we had' the scrap. T. picked him up, put him across my horse, and galloped brick to safety with bullets whistling around. 1 was hit in both legs, and one has still a bullet in it."

Sergeant-Major White served in the South African war. Flo was one of the men who carried Lieutenant Frederick Roberts, V.C., from the firing zone at Colenso when the latter was mortally wounded in trying to save the guns of his battery from capture by the Boers. Lieutenant Roberts was the only son of the late Field-Marshal Lord Roberts.