N.Z.E.F. IN MIDDLE EAST

Camp News, Volume 2, Issue 68, 11 April 1941, Page 3

N.Z.E.F. IN MIDDLE EAST

Distinguished Services Recognized LIST OF AWARDS AND MENTIONS The following awards to members of the New Zealand Military Forces in recognition of distinguished service in the Middle East during the period August, 1939, to November, 1940, appeared in the London Gazette on April 1 : Commander, Military Division of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire: Colonel William George Stevens. Officers of the Military Division of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire: Major (Temporary Lieutenant-Col-onel) George Lawrence Agar. Members, Military Division of the Most Excellent Order of the Bri-

tish Empire: Captain Robert Walter Dunbar. Captain Joseph Stewart King. Captain James Alexander McAlpine. Captain (Temporary Major) Albert Edward Smith. Medal of the Military Division of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire for Meritorious Service : Corporal Thomas Wilford Gill. Military Medal: Signalman Douglas Charles Mundy, New Zealand Corps of Signals. 'The following are mentioned for distinguished services:— Brigadier Edward Puttick, D. 5.0., A.D.C. Colonel William George Stevens. Lieut.-Colonel Graham Beresford Parkinson. Major Kenneth Niven Todd. Captain George Grantham Good. Captain Walter Gordon Morrison. Captain Allan Richmond Cockerell. Captain Gordon Peek. T/Major Thomas Craig Wallace. T/Captain Stanley Tilsley Nolan. Lieutenant Kenneth John Frazer. Lieutenant Donald Gavin Steele. Matron Miss Doris Irene Brown. W.0.11 Eric Roland Firth. T/S.M. Leslie Alexander Harding. T/W.0.11 Stanley Copley Bracken. T/Sergeant John Wallace Bateman. Corporal Edmund Kennard Madigan. A/L. -Corporal Arthur John Moore. -Corporal Edward John Wilton. Signalman Frank George Attrill. Private Newton Noel Bryant. Signalman Arthur Ronald Ferguson. Signalman Roy Mortimer Green. Signalman Leonard Hamilton Hunter. Private Norman William Townsend. Private John Albert Walling.