THE PRO PATRIA PROJECT

DOHERTY Percy George

7/437, Second Lieutenant, Canterbury Mounted Rifles, WW1

Home Guard Service WW2

25947, Legion of Frontiersmen, New Zealand

CITATION

Military Cross

Gazetted 16 September 1918, p11054

For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. During an attack, after the first trench was taken, he rallied his men to meet a counter-attack, which was repulsed. The enemy then began another counter-attack, and, although slightly wounded, he led his men forward under very heavy fire and machine-gun fire, and drove the enemy back a second time

KNOWN AWARDS

Military Cross

1914-15 Star

British War Medal

Victory Medal

War Medal 1939-45

New Zealand War Service Medal

Pioneer Axe

NOTES

Born 1890, Ashburton New Zealand

Died 1970, Tauranga, New Zealand