SILENT DEVOTION TO DUTY

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 169, 21 July 1941, Page 5

SILENT DEVOTION TO DUTY

EARL AND TWO OTHERS POSTHUMOUS AWARDS FOR SECRET RESEARCH Rugby, July 18. A striking example of unselfish devotion to the war effort is shown in a posthumous award of the George Cross to the Earl of Suffolk and comI mendations to Miss Beryl Morden ; and Mr. Fred Hards, in recognition l of work carried out during the six I months prior to their deaths. I The three formed a team, of which J the Earl of Suffolk was the leader | and which was engaged in most se-

eret experimental research work for the Directorate of Scientific Research and the Ministry of Supply. This work was of such a nature that, in the national interest, it cannot be divulged. It is sufficient to say it was essential to one phase of the war effort. It involved extreme hazard to which those taking part were continuously exposed, and for which volunteers were called. The Earl of Suffolk and his team volunteered, in the full knowledge of the extreme dangers involved, and carried it through with unswerving devotion and conspicuous success, and in doing so made a direct and most essential contribution to the technical war effort.—B.O.W.