Supplement to the London Gazette, 24 July, 1915. 7283
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SUPPLEMENT TO THE LONDON GAZETTE, 24 JULY, 1915. 7283 taining and getting back valuable informa- machine-gun from a damaged emplacement tion to his battery and to the infantry and mounting it elsewhere. battalion with which he was working. When 'Also at Le Toquet, during the nights of his wires were cut and his signallers wounded 30th and 31st May, 1915, he made a gallant or away with messages, he himself person- and very useful reconnaissance in front of ally took back information, thus enabling1 our trenches. fire to be brought on objectives as they pre- sented themselves. Second Lieutenant John Brown Savage, 1st Battalion, The Royal Welsh Fusiliers. Second Lieutenant Geoffrey Malcolm For conspicuous gallantry at Festubert, on Gathorne-Hardy, lst/4th Battalion, Princess May 16th, 1915, when, as Acting Adjutant Charlotte of Wales's (Royal Berkshire Regi- of .his battalion, he displayed the greatest ment), Territorial Force. bravery in cheering his men forward For excellent reconnaissance work along although severely wounded near the German the German front, whereby much very valu- parapet. At Neuve Chapelle also he dis- able information has been obtained, played marked ability and courage. ' notably on 18th June, 1915, when, with a lance-corporal, he crawled out by day and Second Lieutenant Hugh Urquhart brought back most useful information re- Scrutton, 1st Battalion, The Northumberland garding the German lines. Fusiliers. For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty at Hooge on 16th June, 191.5. He Second Lieutenant Edward Longsdon Jer- led his platoon with great dash under heavy wood, 1st Battalion, Princess Charlotte of fire against the enemy's line, and later, Wales's (Royal Berkshire Regiment). though wounded in the head, continued to For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to direct the work of a bombing party. duty during an attack' on the enemy's Although again wounded in the head, trenches south of Richebourg. 1'Avoue on the knocked down and rendered deaf, he re- night of May 15th, 1915, when in charge of turned to his trench after his wounds had machine guns. He established a machine been bound up, and remained at his post gun in position in the second captured till dark. German trench under rifle and machine gun fire, and also recovered a machine gun that Second Lieutenant Carleton Stuart Searle, had been lost between the first and second Unattached List, Indian Army, attached 1st German trenches. Battalion Princess Charlotte of Wales's (Royal On 17th May he gallantly led a section Berkshire Regiment). which established two machine guns in the For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to firing line under shell fire, and set a fine ex- duty on several occasions, notably on the ample to the men under his command. night of 15th May, 1915, near Richebourg L'Avoue, when, although wounded, he took Second Lieutenant Charles Claude Edmon- over command of his company and remained stoune Manson, Indian Army, Reserve of at his post all night and all the next day Officers, attached lst/4th Gurkha Rifles. consolidating a captured trench. He has also displayed great coolness and skill in For conspicuous gallantry and coolness on handling patrols, especially at Cuinchy on reconnaissance duty by day near Bois de the night of 27th April. Biez, when assistant to another officer on 2nd and 4th July, 1915. By his prompt action Second Lieutenant Francis Arthur Sutton, on one occasion he enabled his patrol to Royal Engineers. retire without loss after acquiring very valu- able information. For conspicuous gallantry during opera- tions west of Kritbia, Dardanelles, on 22nd Second Lieutenant Lawrence William May, 1915, when attached to the Royal •McArthur, Honourable Artillery Company, Inniskilling Fusiliers. During a counter- Territorial Force. attack, which he led, he picked up and threw back into the enemy's trenches, at great per- For conspicuous gallantry on June 16th, sonal risk, a number of bpmbs, thereby 1915, at Hooge. When our troops were probably saving mar.y lives. He threw six forced to retire from the 3rd line of German bombs, and the seventh exploded in his trenches he rallied part of the retiring troops hand. and reoccupied and held the vacated trench under heavy fire until he was himself forced Second Lieutenant Alfred Marshall Thorn, later to withdraw owing to retirements on 1st Battalion, The Gordon Highlanders. his flanks. He was severely wounded on For excellent reconnaissance work on many this occasion. occasions, notably between May 12th and 20th, 1915, north of "Hill 60," between Second Lieutenant Hilgrove McCormick, May 26th and June 8th in front of Hooge, 1st Battalion, The-Prince of Wales's Leinster and also between 14th and 16th June, near Regiment (Royal Canadians) (formerly Cap- Hooge. He has since been severely wounded. tain 3rd Battalion). For conspicuous gallantry anct devotion Second Lieutenant Thomas Wallace, 3rd to duty. During .the second battle of Battalion, The Border Regiment.. Ypres, under heavy fire, and when himself For conspicuous gallantry on the night of suffering from the effects of gas, he per- June lOth-llth, during operations S.W. of sonally assisted in the removal of the Krithia, Dardanelles, when he volunteered wounded, and materially helped to repulse to lead a, party to clear the enemy out of a an attack by moving single-handed his trench in which they were constructing a.