McLEAN Kenneth Bruce

4/1376, Sapper, New Zealand Tunneling Company, New Zealand Engineers, WW1

CITATION

Distinguished Conduct Medal

Gazetted 1 January 1919, p11191

France, 22 March 1918. For courageous devotion to duty and initiative in execution of his work.  On 10th March last he was detailed as instructor in dug-out construction.  At the commencement of a hostile attack on 22nd March, the message to recall him having miscarried, he stayed with the battery for five days, and assisted in both working the gun and establishing a new position when the battery withdrew.  On his own initiative he opened up a partly demolished dug-out, and so provided cover for a gun crew during a period of intense hostile shelling.

KNOWN AWARDS

Distinguished Conduct Medal

British War Medal

Victory Medal

NOTES

Born 16 April 1887, Scotland

Died 9 April 1946, Auckland, New Zealand

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