RECIPIENT OF M.B.E.
Warrant Officer Frank’s Career
Warrant-Officer 11. L. S. Frank, to whom the M.B.E. has been awarded, has been associated with the armed services for 42 years. He has been a member of the New Zealand Perman ent Forces for the past 29 years, as staff sergeant-major. During his’ first military service with the Nelson Rifles, under the volunteer system, he estab lished himself as one of the best rille shots in the Dominion and represented New Zealand at Risley in the Empire competition at the Coronation of King George V in 1911.
After training at the llythe School of Musketry, he joined the New Zea land' Permanent Forces in 1912 Dur ing the Great War he was retained as musketry instructor at Featherston and Trentham camps and was awarded the British and New Zealand meritorious service medals. He won the King’s Medal at Trentham in 1925 and twice represented the Dominion at Australian rifle meetings. He has been stationed
at the Nelson Army office for the past 18 years. ‘
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Camp News, Volume 2, Issue 81, 11 July 1941, Page 5
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172RECIPIENT OF M.B.E. Camp News, Volume 2, Issue 81, 11 July 1941, Page 5
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