IMMEDIATE AWARDS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 303, 24 December 1942, Page 3

IMMEDIATE AWARDS

MEMBERS OF SECOND N.Z.E.F. Advice has been received that His j Majesty the King has approved the i following immediate awards to | Second N.Z.E F. personnel serving in the Middle East: — Bar to D. 5.0.: Brigadier Cyril Ettrick Weir, j who was mentioned in dispatches in January, i : 12, and awarded the D.S.O. in April, Auck- : Distinguifbed Srr ice O-'lerr Lieuteqant- j (’donel lai Lambert Bonifant. ioi -iy • • ntioned in dispatches*; Methven. Licutc:.--Colonel Ralf Walden Hatdinu. Da .l. I>. I Bar to Muita 1 ■ - Maj H MarReid, awarded the Military in No- j . ember, 1941. and mentioned in <! patch* , l-’manj. Captain A!ev>n.lrr Ma’nleson Ruth- | t-.nrd. awarded the Military Cross in November. I‘l2. Wellington. Duff, meat ton Skinner M I’.. pr«nio.i-.!v n,e..ti<.ne.l ,u i dupatche*. Riuaka. N‘ -on. ( t -n 1..- >: rd II -rbert Poolmnn. H.» • I Tcnai t .1 hr | Thomas Haa<|.>n Halk«»tt. I’ma- Lie-iter-ant Rollout Milton I'acr. X > kland. I. <re nnt Peter Robert *>r., Xi'-Vland. |,nu'.nau’ • • \ . . . L.eutenant Alfred < •->«• Hi Mare", I-,:—’ ■ | Di-tinK inched t -n.lu - Medal: .<• r • - . ■ H 1 . Bramwe.l. Flimmer-..., . Set scant John B-m. • ~eer. island. Sergeant Hedley Mwi.. t,oeffr'. , 1-i ... Sergeant John Kingston I i I I ui-i-.i, h. >r:g.-ant William Keth Mat--’.lil, Tim;.'. Lance-Sergeant Francis •‘ichael Ju*ph Mar-hall. One . .n/a. Coif ml Thnmar- McManu-. Nyataki. Cor ; . rai .“r.-on. West Plains. Invei-citgill. ' li-mne Ormonde Wo. -dale, Wellington. E nert Buick. Airedale. Oaniaru; Sergean’ FT.lward Iraae Barnett. Auckland. Sergeant rgea; J i Ales H< d Sergeant Harry Markey, Waiomatatin:. Sc -

geant William Alan Marshall, Manunui. Sergeant Claude Rex Puiford, New Plymouth. Sergeant Robert Benedict Smith, Auckland. Sergeant Cecil Brice Taggart. Napier. Sergeant Norman Harrington Norton Thompson, Judea, Tauranga. Lance-Sergeant William John Cattanach, Upper Hutt. Lance-Ser-geant Francis William Ellery. Hamilton. Lance-Sergeant Thomas James Higginson, Waikanae. Lance-Sergeant Charles Duncan Mackay Kiana. Waitoa. Corporal Charles Ogston Barron, Timaru. Corporal Frank Jef.ey Blackett, Sitverstream. Corporal Herbert John de Stigter, Onerahi. Corporal Ewen Roy Mclnne*. Devonport. Corporal Michael M pnra! Bernard Robert McCarthy. Alexandria. Lanre-U<»: poral Harold John Monaghan. Eketahuna. I.anc*-Bombardier Ailister Grigor Peterson, Dunedin. Lance-Corporal Ja'ves Patrick Scanlan, Dunedin, Private John Alexander Black. address unt»tate«l. T ate lz><>nard Dolheguy. Ashburton. Private Joseph Forsyth. < )>• i-tch’ir<h. Private i.’ ■- Henry Sizeland Harper, Christchurch. ]' -ate Ba-il Vnllintone Kitson, Whangarei. r .•. John Reglan Maclean. Hastings. S. per L.oyd Taylor, Australia. Private Fre»l K ■ • Pri ’• Fred Rigby Wrig-