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HOLDER Frank Noel

2/278, Sergeant, 3 Battery, New Zealand Field Artillery, WW1

CITATION

Distinguished Conduct Medal

Gazetted 10 January 1917, p470

For conspicuous gallantry in action.  He displayed great courage and determination in continuing to keep the guns in action under most intense hostile fire.  On another occasion he collected a few men and extinguished a fire in a burning gun pit. He has at all times set a splendid example

KNOWN AWARDS

Distinguished Conduct Medal

1914-15 Star

British War Medal

Victory Medal

NOTES

Born 1891, Napier, New Zealand

Died 30 August 1954, Palmerston North, New Zealand