Berkshire and The War: the "Reading Standard" pictorial record. Volume 1. pg119

Mentioned in Despatches.

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Title Berkshire and The War: the "Reading Standard" pictorial record. Volume 1. pg119
Date 1916
Page number Unknown
Publisher Reading Standard
Description 224 pages bound volume
Horizon Number: 1246254

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Lynda Chater. Edited 3rd November 2015

MENTIONED IN DESPATCHES

Captain S. V. SHEA, 9th County of London Regt. (Queen
Victoria Rifles), a member of the firm of H. and G. Simonds,
Ltd. son of the late Dr. Shea and of Mrs. Shea, Bradfield.

Captain C. St. Q. O. FULLBROOK-LEGGATT,
1st Batt. Roal Berks Regiment, Knightslee, Eldon
Square, Reading. Awarded the D.S.O. for gallantry
in the retirement from Mons, when he was
lieutentant; he and his men helped to delay the Germans'
advance at a most critical stage of the war.
Also awarded the Military Cross. Invalided.

Coy. Sergt. Major G. SMITH, 1st Batt.
Royal Berks Regiment, Sparsholt.
Awarded the D.C.M. for an act in an
engagement which ended in the capture
of German trencehes and seventy
of the enemy.

Corpl. B. BOSLEY, 1st Batt. Beford Regt.
117 Wykeham Road, Reading. Carried a
wounded man to safety under heavy shell
fire; afterwards ill with gas poisoning.

Corpl. T. P. NORRIS, Royal Engineers,
St. Bartholemew's Vicarage, Reading.