Du FLOU Leopold Louis Jacques

8/3807, Company Sergeant Major, 2nd Battalion, Otago Regiment, WW1

Home Guard Service WW2

CITATION

Distinguished Conduct Medal

Gazetted 30 October 1918, p12853

For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty.  He organised and led personally through an intense barrage parties of carriers, and kept the Lewis gunners and bombers of the front line well supplied with munitions, though suffering himself severely from the shock of a shell explosion.  Later, he assisted in carrying out the relief of the company, which had lost all its platoon officers, displaying admirable qualities of organisation and initiative

KNOWN AWARDS

Distinguished Conduct Medal

British war Medal

Victory Medal

Defence Medal

War Service Medal 1939-45

New Zealand War Service Medal

New Zealand Territorial Service Medal

NOTES

Born 15 December 1893, Melbourne, Australia

Died 13 June 1971, Auckland, New Zealand

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