MILITARY MEDALS

Waikato Times, Volume 87, Issue 13292, 22 September 1916, Page 5

MILITARY MEDALS

NEW ZEALAND LIST. KIXTKKX AWARDS .MADE. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received September 22, !) h m LONDON, September 21. -Military medals liavo beein awarded i<> the following Xow Zoalnnders:—• Sergeant Bristol-, Canterliurr. Sergeant (Yawford, Auckland. Sergeant Holmes, Wellington! Sergeant Simmers, Rifle Brigade Sergeant S. Williams, Field Artillery C-orpoial A. Wright, Rifle Brigade." ' Unoo-Corporal Bedgood, Rifle Brigade. LHiifP-r o i-p ( „al Roeotto, Rifl P .Brigade. Bomlmdier F. Kennedy, Field Artillery. Bombardier Kuhze, Field Artillery . : Jjnnner W. .Mill.-,,-. Field Artillery/ V ;"""<''• Oh rs, Field Artillery ' ■ -J r < (■miner Savingny. Field Artillery hapiior Linklater. Field 'Engineers. : '•' I mate Oeaney, Rifle Brigade ' • - • nvate Ookondrv, Otago. ■ " "-vl 'TTirAHf, Friday. ' So.geani«ol,i. Simmers, of the Rifle ''gad,v. mentioned as haying received tlie .Military Medal, is a SO » „f Mr G A. Simmors. formerly headmaster of the r.maru High School. Sergeant Simmers enlisted at Dannovirke, where he was employed in surveying work He mentions in a letter dated July 19thJ took a patrol out at night to rescue «jk«l, '»'< five of then, stuck it out io tlhoc hours. Filially supports and st ocier hearers arrived, and the wounded man was rescued." BOMBADIER KUHTZ. Bombadier John Hirliaid Henry ; ] SS-ff 1 H r Uton - P '''">-tothe. ou bieak of war he was a member of G.~* ot the Expeditionary Force, and left as a gunner with tbe Main Body, receiving promotion since leaving. Mr Kuhtz is a naturalised German, and »«>«glit tor his country .in the Franco- • Prussian war of 1870. With his wife'he Paid a visit to the Fatherland' a short ' • time before the outbreak of war, but.he found the restrictions on living there so severe, and the espionage so strict, that he was glad to return to Kfc£/ adopted country.