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HERROLD John Henry

13/161, Major, Auckland Mounted Rifles, WW1

Home Guard Service WW2

CITATION

Distinguished Service Order

Gazetted 8 May 1919

On the night of 24/25th September 1918, he took command of a party of 100 men with orders to cut the Amman – Derra railway line north of Amman.  He marched by night over roadless country, intersected by innumerable wadis which made progress very difficult. On reaching the line he found an enemy party at work, but moving further south, he accomplished his object, removing a set of rails from the line, although large numbers of the enemy were continually moving along the road just east of the line

KNOWN AWARDS

Distinguished Service Order

1914-15 Star

British War Medal

Victory Medal

New Zealand War Service Medal

New Zealand Long and Efficient Service Medal

NOTES

Born 15 July 1878, Calcutta, India

Died 12 August 1966, Auckland, New Zealand