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SPRIGGS Charles Arnold

25/69, Company Sergeant Major, 3rd Battalion, New Zealand Rifle Brigade, WW1

CITATION

Distinguished Conduct Medal

Gazetted 4 March 1918, p2862

Passchendaelle, 12 October 1917.  For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty.  By his personal example and disregard of danger he inspired his platoon at a critical time in the attack.  In the consolidation under heavy machine-gun fire his cheerfulness and courage spurred on the men with him, and it was mainly owing to his efforts that the work was completed.

KNOWN AWARDS

Distinguished Conduct Medal

British War Medal

Victory Medal

Memorial Plaque

NOTES

Born 17 August 1890, Napier, New Zealand

Killed in Action 8 October 1918, France

Buried at Hilltop Cemetery, Cambrai