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Description: | A Divisional order by Major General Sir Andrew Hamilton Russell, Commander of the New Zealand Division (1p), announcing the posthumous award of the Victoria Cross to Forsyth for his actions whilst serving as a Sergeant with the NZ Engineers attached to the 2nd Battalion Auckland Regiment (2nd New Zealand Brigade, New Zealand Division) in France on 24 August 1918, describing how he led his company in an attack whilst under heavy machine gun fire capturing three gun positions and forcing the retirement of the enemy until he was killed by a sniper. Together with a certificate from the Prime Minister of New Zealand presenting the Gallipoli Medallion (1p).
Cataloguer SMR | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Forsyth, Samuel | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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