THE PRO PATRIA PROJECT

DONALDSON Thomas Davis Smillie

13/178, Sergeant, Auckland Mounted Rifles, WW1

Home Guard Service WW2

CITATION

Distinguished Conduct Medal

Gazetted 28 March 1918, p3892

Palestine August 1917.  For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty.  During the attack he displayed great gallantry by the manner in which he conveyed the wounded across a river during the retirement.  He, with another man, under heavy fire, went out and brought back the whole of the wounded, swimming with them across the river.  His gallantry and disregard of danger were most marked.

KNOWN AWARDS

Distinguished Conduct Medal

1914-15 Star

British War Medal

Victory Medal

War Medal 1939-45

New Zealand War Service Medal

Gallipoli Medallion

Gallipoli Lapel Badge

NOTES

Born 9 July 1890, Palmerston North, New Zealand

Died 23 May 1979, Middlemore, Auckland, New Zealand