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Supplement to the London Gazette, 5 Apkil, 1919. 4525 SUPPLEMENT TO THE LONDON GAZETTE, 5 APKIL, 1919. 4525 Order de la Couronne. Lieutenant (temporary Captain) George Hed- ley Miller, 13th Brigade, Australian Field Chevalier. Artillery. Lieutenant Arthur Hatton Alder, '4th Aus- LJeuten>antr<Co'lone'l John Wesley Mitchell, tralian Light Horse, attached 22nd Corps, D.S.O., 8th Infantry Battalion, Australian Mounted Regiment. Imperial Force. Lieutenant John Murdoch Prentice, 39th Lieutenant Alfred McLaren Moore, 27th In- Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. fantry Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Lieutenant-Colonel Leslie Miltiades Mullen, ; D.iS.O., 9th Battalion, Australian Infantry. Croix de Guerre. Major Edric Noel Mulligan, D.S.O., 2nd Aus- Lieutenant Arthur Hatton Alder, 4th Aus- tralian Tunnelling Company, Australian tralian Light Horse, attached 22nd Corps, Engineers. Mounted Regiment. Major Reginald Havill Norman, M.C., 48th Major Alan Forbes Anderson, 1st Pioneer Battalion, attached 12th Australian Infantry Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Brigade. Captain Cyril Bartlett, 4th Australian Divi- Oaptain Sydney Edward Perkins, 49th Batta- sional Train, Australian Imperial Force. lion, Australian Imperial Force. Major Duncan Beith, 23rd Battalion, Aus- Lieutenant John Murdoch Prentice, 39th Bat- tralian Imperial Force. talion, Australian Imperial Force. Captain John William ?ell> 7tn Field Com' Lieutenant (temporary Captain) Herbert Grey pany, Australian Engineers. Raymond, 12th Brigade, Australian Field Lieutenant Henry James Brown, 56th Batta- Artillery. lion, attached 14th Australian Light Trench Captain John David Rogers, M.C., 6th In- • Mortar Battery. fantry Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Major Donald Duncan Buchanan, 13th Aus- Lieutenant-Colonel George Cattell Somerville, tralian Light Horse Regiment. C.M.G., D.S.O., Australian General List. Colonel (temporary Brigadier-General) James Quartermaster and Captain Percy Godfrey Harold Cannan, C.B., C.M.G., llth Aus- Sparkes, 31st Infantry Battalion, Australian tralian Infantry Brigade. Imperial Force. .;_. Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Christie, D.S.O., Major (temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) Cyril; 51st Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. Herman Spurge, llth Brigade, Australian Major Percy Edward Cooper, 103rd Howitzer Field Artillery. Battery, Australian Field Artillery. Lieutenant Harold George Strong, 1st Austra- Major Arthur Roy Cox, 14th Battalion, Aus- lian Divisional Artillery. tralian Imperial Force. Lieutenant Sydney. Robert T'raill, let-Infantry Captain George Lancelot Dean, 13th Battery, Battalion, Australian Imperial Force.. 5th Brigade, Australian Field Artillery. Lieutenant Noel Frederick Hamilton Trotman, Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Aloysius Denehy, 4th Battalion, Australian Machine Gun D.S.O., 57th Battalion, Australian Imperial Corps. Force. Colonel Deedley Persse White, Australian Captain Gordon Allan Dunbar, 43rd Batta- General List. lion, Australian Imperial Force. Lieutenant 'Norman Francis Wilkinson, 2nd Lieutenant Horace Walter Duncan, 2nd Aus- Battalion, Australian Machine Gun Corps. tralian Mechanical Transport Company, Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Rees Williams, Australian Army Service Corps. D.S.O., Australian Engineers. Major William Gordon Farquhar, D.S.O., 8th 3791 Driver Hedley Allen, 9th Battery, Aus- Field Company, Australian Engineers. tralian Field Artillery. Captain (temporary Major) Alfred Sandle 2810 Battery Serjeant-Major William Edward Ford,- 4th Australian Divisional Ammuni- Allen, 51st Battery, 13th Brigade, Austra- tion Column, Australian Artillery lian Field Artillery. Colonel (temporary Brigadier-General) Henry 3602 Temporary 'Corporal Gerald Gordon An- Arthur Goddard, D.S.O., 9th Australian derson, M.M., 50th Battalion, Australian Infantry Brigade. Infantry. Major Arthur Morley Grainger, 100th Battery, _3621 Lance-Corporal Frederick George Arthur, 6th Army Brigade, Australian Field Artil- 4th Australian Divisional 'Signal Company, lery. Australian Engineers. Lieutenant (temporary Captain) Edward 10497 Gunner William James Batchlor, 1st Griffith, 3rd Divisional Artillery, Australian Battery, 1st Brigade, Australian Field Field Artillery. Artillery. Major John Vincent Hume Guest, 8th Field 685 Corporal Herbert Baynes, 44th Battalion, Ambulance, Australian Army Medical Australian Infantry. Corps. 1212 Private Arthur James Bell, 32nd Bat- Lieutenant-Colonel Alan Frankland Jolley, 9th talion, Australian Infantry. Australian Field Ambulance, Australian 232 Lance-iSerjeant James Beswetherick, 43rd Army Medical Corps. Battalion, Australian Infantry. Lieutenant Frank Barnsdale Kitchin, 2nd 7409 Corporal John MacMichael Bignell, 8th Pioneer Battalion, Australian- Imperial Field Company, Australian Engineers. Force. 1054 Serjeant Frederick David Birkett, 41st Battalion, Australian Infantry. Colonel Edwin Thomas Leane, Australian 2866 Lance-Corporal Howard I'Anson Bloom- Army Ordnance Corps. Held, 56th Battalion, Australian Infantry. Colonel (temporary Brigadier-General) Waltsr 2272 Serjeant Joseph Bowie, 4th Battalion, Ramsay MoNicoll, C.M.G., D.S.O., 10th Australian Infantry. Australian Infantry Brigade. 2110 Company Serjeant-Major Harold Charles Lieutenant William Harold Mathieson, 3rd Brainwood, 1st Battalion, Australian Australian Machine Gun Corps. Infantry..
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