SHERIFF William

30408, Private, 1st Battalion, Wellington Regiment, WW1

Private, Stratford Home Guard, WW2

20824, Legion of Frontiersmen, Stratford, New Zealand

CITATION

Distinguished Conduct Medal

Gazetted 18 February 1919, p2423

Citation 10 January 1920, p482

For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty at Briastre on 12th October 1918.  He went forward with two platoons and helped to carry wounded

back through heavy shell fire.  Later in the attack he again went out, and whilst carrying in a wounded man a shell burst, killing the other stretcher

bearer, He carried the wounded man himself on his back to the advance dressing station.

KNOWN AWARDS

Distinguished Conduct Medal

British War Medal

Victory Medal

New Zealand War Service Medal 1939-45

NOTES

Born 4 September 1886, Drumcow, Ireland

Died 23 November 1975, Stratford, New Zealand

Buried Kopuatama Cemetery, Stratford, New Zealand

NOTE: He is recorded as having a birth year of 4 Sep 1886 on his military attestation paper, and 4 Sep 1893 on his death record

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