Medals
Military Cross
'For exceptionally gallant conduct on 5th June 1915, during the operations in the Gallipoli Peninsula, in personally leading a party of 100 men to take a trench from which an enemy machine gun was severely harassing his position. Although unable to remove the machine gun owing to the heavy head cover, he destroyed it with rifle fire. He personally shot two Turks with his own pistol, and with his party inflicted severe losses on the enemy.'
Source: 'London Gazette' No. 8503
Date: 25 August 1915
Military Cross
'For exceptionally gallant conduct on 5th June 1915 duringthe operations on the Gallipoli Peninsula; in personally leading a party of 100 men to take a trench from which an enemy machine gun was severely harassing his position. Although unable to remove the machine gun owing to the heavy head cover, he destroyed it with rifle fire. He personally shot two Turks with his own pistol, and with his party inflicted severe losses on the enemy.'
Source: 'Commonwealth Gazette' No. 103
Date: 29 June 1917
