SHERIFF William
30408, Private, 1st Battalion, Wellington Regiment, WW1
Private, Stratford Home Guard, WW2
20824, Legion of Frontiersmen, Stratford, New Zealand
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Distinguished Conduct Medal
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Gazetted 18 February 1919, p2423
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Citation 10 January 1920, p482
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For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty at Briastre on 12th October 1918. He went forward with two platoons and helped to carry wounded
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back through heavy shell fire. Later in the attack he again went out, and whilst carrying in a wounded man a shell burst, killing the other stretcher
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bearer, He carried the wounded man himself on his back to the advance dressing station.
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Distinguished Conduct Medal
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New Zealand War Service Medal 1939-45
NOTES
Born 4 September 1886, Drumcow, Ireland
Died 23 November 1975, Stratford, New Zealand
Buried Kopuatama Cemetery, Stratford, New Zealand
NOTE: He is recorded as having a birth year of 4 Sep 1886 on his military attestation paper, and 4 Sep 1893 on his death record
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