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DUNTHORNE Alfred

26/766, Private, 4th Battalion, New Zealand Rifle Brigade, WW1

CITATION

Distinguished Conduct Medal

Gazetted 16 August 1917, p8415

Messines, 7 June 1917.  For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty.  Whilst under exceptionally heavy shell-fire with his company he noticed that three men of an adjacent company had been buried by a salvo.  He at once rushed to the place amidst thickly falling shells and personally extracted the three men, showing complete disregard of his personal safety under the most trying circumstances.

KNOWN AWARDS

Distinguished Conduct Medal

British War Medal

Victory Medal

NOTES

Born 22 November 1892, Margate, England

Died 27 April 1977, Lower Hutt, New Zealand