The AIF Project

Awarded, and promulgated, 'London Gazette' No. 30706 (28 May 1918); 'Commonwealth Gazette' No. 165 (24 October 1918).

'For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. Finding that his regimental stretcher bearers were unable to find a regimental aid post which he had established in a German "pill box" he personally led the first party of them through an intense artillery and machine gun fire barrage. Although knocked down by a bursting shell, he immediately resumed the dressing of the wounded. Although owing to casualties, he had only two men to help him, he courageously persevered with his work and himself helped to excavate a dug out for the wounded under heavy shell fire, during which several of the wounded were killed. He remained on duty for sixty hours, and refused to leave his post till the last wounded man had been evacuated. By his constant cheerfulness under the most adverse conditions, and by his utter disregard for his own safety, he kept up the spirits of the wounded and stimulated his surviving helpers to their utmost effort.'
Source: 'Commonwealth Gazette' No. 150
Date: 24 September 1918