LOCKETT Ernest Barnett

4121, Sergeant Major, 7th Contingent New Zealand Mounted Rifles, South Africa

CITATION

Distinguished Conduct Medal

Gazetted

For most gallant rescue of a prisoner in the Losberg on 23 August 1901.  He was severely wounded and has lost an arm in consequence

KNOWN AWARDS

Distinguished Conduct Medal

Queens South Africa Medal with bars

Diamond Hill, Johannesburg, Driefontein, Relief of Kimberly,Transvaal, Orange Free State, South Africa 1901

Mention in Despatches in South Africa

NOTES

Born

Died 1943, Waihi, New Zealand

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