Berkshire and The War: the "Reading Standard" pictorial record. Volume 2. p 344
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| Title | Berkshire and The War: the "Reading Standard" pictorial record. Volume 2. p 344 |
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| Date | 1917 |
| Page number | 344 |
| Publisher | Unknown |
| Description | Not available |
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RECOGNITION OF BRAVERY.
[photo, portrait] Pte. FREDK. WM. EXCELL, 2nd Batt. Bedford Regiment, Warfield. - Commended for holding a communication trench, also for bravery in an advance.
[photo, portrait] Sergt. F. BLEAZARD, Royal Field Artillery, Sadler's Lane, Wokingham. - Awarded the D.C.M.
[photo, portrait] Tpr. STANLEY K. PERKINS, 1/1st Berks Yeomanry, 30, Kendrick Road, Reading. - Awarded the D.C.M. for services as stretcher bearer at Hill 70, Gallipoli. For 30 hours he was bringing in the wounded under fire. [Photo by Donna Roma.]
[photo, portrait] Corpl. H. G. COLLYER, 1/4t h Batt. Royal Berks Regt., Queen's Crescent, Rose Street, Wokingham. - Commended for distinguished conduct in the field.
[photo, portrait] Miss EMMA DODD, out-patient sister at the Royal Berks Hospital. - Mentioned in despatches for Red Cross services with the British Expeditionary Force in France.
[photo, portrait] Battery Sergt.-Major D. BIRD, Royal Field Artillery, Sandhurst. - Awarded the D.C.M. for bravery in Gallipoli, where he assumed the most dangerous position in a voluntary gun detachment that was in action under heavy fire for nearly an hour.
[photo, portrait] Second Lieut. W. A. BLYDE, 1/1st Berks Yeomanry, 8, College Road, Reading. - Awarded the D.C.M. for services in Gallipoli, where, as a Lce.-Corpl., he killed, single-handed, two Turks who were about to take up their positions as snipers, and by order of the Major-General he was promoted sergeant on the field. [Photo by Walton Adams.]
[photo, portrait] The late Pte. E. VERRALL, 4th Batt. Hants Regiment, Warbrook, Eversley. - Died of wounds. Awarded the D.C.M.
[photo, portrait] Pte. REUBEN HASKINS, 1/4th Batt. Royal Berks Regt., 6, Mount Pleasant, Reading. - Commended for bravery in carrying messages along trenches under fierce bombardment.
[photo, portrait] Corpl. C. GRAINGER, "A" Battery, 78th Brigade, R.F.A., 41, Soho Street, Reading. - Awarded the D.C.M. for gallantry under fire.