WEAVER Peter

9/1747, Trooper, Otago Mounted Rifles, WW1

CITATION

Distinguished Conduct Medal

Gazetted 30 October 1918, p12854

France 28 July 1918. For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty and determination during a reconnaissance.  He pushed forward to within a few hundred yards of a village, after crossing several areas swept by machine gun fire, where his comrade was severely wounded.  He found the village strongly held, and was himself wounded.  In returning he managed, in spite of his own wound, to get his comrade safely back to our lines

KNOWN AWARDS

Distinguished Conduct Medal

1914-15 Star

British War Medal

Victory Medal

NOTES

Born 21 June 1895, Earnsleugh, Otago, New Zealand

Died 13 September 1919, Alexandra, New Zealand

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