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SCULLY Peter Alphonsus

24/1189, Company Sergeant Major, 2nd Battalion, New Zealand Rifle Brigade, WW1

CITATION

Distinguished Conduct Medal

Gazetted 16 January 1919, p869

For conspicuous gallantry and initiative in the operations from the 8th to the 13th September 1918, near Gouzeacourt Wood.  His company being without officers, he took it into the final line to relieve troops who were to attack the following day.  During the attack on the 9th he had charge of his platoon in the support line and controlled it with great skill.  On one occasion with one man he took a load of bombs to the front line, and when returning observed a machine gun firing on the flank of the battalion.  He at once rushed it, bombing the crew, killed them all and captured the gun.

KNOWN AWARDS

Distinguished Conduct Medal

1914-15 Star

British War Medal

Victory Medal

Memorial Plaque

NOTES

Born 6 October 1887, Invercargill, New Zealand

Killed in Action 4 November 1918, France

Buried at Le Quesnoy British Cemetery, France