524 SUPPLEMENT TO THE LONDON GAZETTE, 28 JANUARY, 1943 and again under heavy machine-gun fire, he Lieutenant (temporary Captain) (acting Major) Martin charged the second post with rifle and St. John Valentine _Gibbs (73516), The Royal Wiltshire YeomanryT Royal Armoure4 Corps bayonet. It was from this post that the (Gloucester). heaviest fire had been directed. He inflicted Major (temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) ' Kenneth . further .casualties and was within striking Mackay, O.B.E. (22028), Corps of Royal Engineers distance of his objective, when he was killed (Parkstone, Dorset). Captain (temporary Major) (acting Lieutenant- by a burst of machine-gun fire. Colonel) Geoffrey Charles Philip Lance (56660), By his brave and determined action, which Infantry (Bradford). completely unnerved the enemy, and" by his Captain (temporary Major) Dudley John Malcolm Smith (51291), The Essex Regiment (Chigwell, successful reduction of the enemy's strength, Essex). Private Gratwick's Company was able to Lieutenant (temporary Captain) Richard MacKenzie move forward and mop up its objective. Dick (76539), The Sherwood Foresters (Nottingham- Private Gratwick's unselfish courage, his shire and Derbyshire Regiment) (Preston). Lieutenant (temporary Captain) (acting Major) Peter gallant and determined- efforts against the Charles Blundell (79282), The King's Royal Rifle heaviest opposition changed a doubtful Corps (since died of wolinds). situation into the successful' capture of his Lieutenant-Colonel Ian Lambert Bonifant (20041), Company's final objective. New Zealand Military Forces. Lieutenant-Colonel Ralf Walden Harding, M.M. (20071), New Zealand Military Forces. CENTRAL CHANCERY OF THE ORDERS OF KNIGHTHOOD. Bar to the Military Cross. St. James's Palace, S.W.i. Lieutenant Eric Ritchie Fothergill, M.C., Royal 28th January. 1943. Horse Artillery. Captain John Stewart Lancaster, M.C. (114890), The KING has been graciously pleased to approve Royal Army Medical Corps (Sibford Gower, Oxon). of the award of the British Empire Medal (Military Captain (temporary Major) Hugh Murray Reid, M.C. Division), in recognition of gallant conduct in carry- (34866), New Zealand Military Forces. ing out hazardous work in a very brave manner, Captain Alexander Mathieson Rutherford, M.C. to:—• (45141), New Zealand Military Forces. No 1767783 Gunner Peter Williams, Royal Regiment of Artillery (Liverpool, 5). The Military Cross. Lieutenant (temporary Captain) Edward Dudley Smith (102699), Royal Horse Artillery (New York). CENTRAL CHANCERY OF THE ORDERS Lieutenant (temporary Captain) Basil Ro'yston OF KNIGHTHOOD. Nicholson (78776), The Queen's Bays (2nd St. James's Palace, S.W.i. Dragoon Guards), Royal Armoured Corps (Basing- 28th January, 1943. stoke). Captain Michael Eveleigh (62567), Royal Armoured ERRATA. Corps (Lancers) (Camberley). British Empire Medal (Military Division). Lieutenant Charles Geoffrey Dorman* (179911), 3rd The particulars of the following awards are as now The King's Own Hussars, Royal Armoured Corps shown and not as shown in the undermentioned (Yarm, Yorks). Gazette: — Captain (temporary Major) George Henry Errington (78431), loth Royal Hussars (Prince of Wales's The London Gazette dated ist January, 1943, Own), Royal Armoured Corps (Lyndhurst, Hants). . No. 35842, page 58. Captain (temporary Major) (local Lieutenant-Colonel) 6.72834 Private James Robertson Garvie, 48th High- Patrick Robert Chamier Hobart (73080), Royal landers of Canada. Tank Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps (May- H. 16558 Private Charles Albert Willowby Lowen, field, Sussex). Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry. Captain (temporary Major) Noel Patrick McDonald (134840), Royal Tank Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps (Chingford, Essex). War Office, 28th January, 1943. Captain (temporary Major) 'Stanley Douglas Christopherson (99064)," The Nottinghamshire The KING has been graciously pleased to approve Yeomanry, Royal . Armoured Corps (London, the following awards in recognition of gallant and S.W.i). distinguished services in the Middle East: —. Lieutenant (temporary Captain) (acting Major) The Second Bar to the Distinguished Service Order. Honourable Peter Montefiore Samuel (67288), The Warwickshire Yeomanry, Royal Armoured Corps Major-General (acting) Allan Francis Harding, ate Tne (London, S.W.i). C.B.E., D.S.O., M.C. (12247), l Somerset Captain (temporary Major) Hubert Blount (44811), Light Infantry (Prince Albert's). The Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry, Royal Armoured Corps (Tetbury, Glos.). Bar to the Distinguished Service Order. Lieutenant William John Ewart (85352), The Royal. Brigadier (acting) George Philip Bradley Roberts, Wiltshire Yeomanry, Royal Armoured Corps (Tet- D.S.O., M.C. (34890), Royal Tank Regiment, bury, Glos.). Royal Armoured Corps (Durban, S. Africa). Lieutenant Alan Boris Wyndham Pennell, M.B.E. Brigadier (temporary) John Cecil Currie, D.S.O., (184674), The Royal Wiltshire Yeomany, Royal M.C. (11446), Royal Regiment of Artillery (Wester- Armoured Corps. ham, Kent). Lieutenant (temporary Captain) Alun John (124617), Brigadier (acting) , Thomas James Bolle Bosvile, Royal Regiment of Artillery (Barry, G-lam.). D.S.O., M.C. (11877), The Rifle Brigade (Prince Captain (temporary Major) Brian Leslie Lynch Abdy Consort's Own) (Taunton). Collins (58044), Corps of Royal Engineers (Bristol). Brigadier Cyril Ettrick Weir, D.S.O. (1523), New Captain (temporary Major) Henry Llewellyn Lloyd Zealand Military Forces. (58040), Corps of Royal Engineers (Saffron Walden, Essex). The Distinguished Service Order. Captain (temporary Major) John Frederick Mayo Major (temporary Lieutenant - Colonel) William Perrott (38925), Corps of Royal Engineers (Stoke Murray Leggatt (51), Royal Horse Artillery Poges, Bucks). (London, E.C.2). Lieutenant Ernest Glenesk Richards (151769), Corps Major (temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) Gerald Hugh of Royal Engineers (Inverbervie, by Montrose). Grosvenor (36661), gth Queen's Royal Lancers, Captain (temporary Major) Edward William Harold Royal Armoured Corps (Fairford, Glos.). Worrall (41440), Infantry (Res. of Off.) (attached Captain (temporary Major) (local Lieutenant-Colonel) The Durham Light Infantry) (Babbercrouch, near Douglas Robert Beaumont Kaye (3,9928), zoth Taunton). Royal Hussars (Prince of Wales's Own), Royal Lieutenant Charles William Kennerley Potts (103562), Armoured Corps (Cirencester). The Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment). Major (temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) Guy Jackson Captain (temporary Major) Andrew William Edgar (7264), The Warwickshire Yeomanry, Royal (62599), The East Yorkshire Regiment (The Duke Armoured Corps (Birmingham). of York's Own) (Brechin, Angus).