The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-01-07
CROSSES
AWARDED z MEN
FOR HEROIC DEEDS

LONDON (via Montrean, Jan. IT,
The Official Gazette announces the
award Of % Victoria crosses. of which
three Of the recipients, including one
Canadian, are dead. six Canadians and
Newfoundlanders have been awarded
the honor.
Perhaps the most notable achieve
ment OF those who now receive he
V. c., was that Of CAPT. John Mac
GreEor, OF the Canadian mounted rifles.
who, from Sept, % to oct 2, in opera
tons near Cambria. led his company
under an intense fire and when the ad-
vance was checked by machine guns
pushed on, although wounded, and
located the enemy guns He then ran
forward in broad daylight, in the face
OF a heavy fire from all directions. and
with rifle and haYonet, sinEle-handed,
put the enemy gun crews out Of action,
killing four men and taking eight prts-
oners.
Among the other citations were:
Lieut.. George Frazer Kerr. NJ G.,
NJ. NJ, Third battalion, First Central
Ontario regiment, for the most con
the Bourbon wood operations on sent
Is, 1918, when commanding the left
support Of a company i'm attack h.
handled the company with great SIKH
and gave timely support bv outt|ank-
ing a machine gun which was imped-
AANh AAAR NbNAil'N "a O. INhl Nv ~ 10
Cambria road, In the advance he was
again held VI by a strong enemy post,
Kerr, who was far in advance Of his
company, rushed this strong point
si~ngle-handed, captured four machine
guns and 81 prisoners.
Lieut.. Milton Fowler Gregg. Of "A
Nova Scotia regiment, for the most con-
spicuous bravery and initiative during
operations near Camhrai, from Sent, Is
70 Oct. !, On Sept. 2S, when the ad-
afa - ~ 49, lIlvala .,Dna I.lI a., htr
fire on both TANKS and by thick uncut
wire. he crawled forward alone, ex-
plored the wire until he found n small
gap through which he subsequently led
his men and forced an entry into the
enemy trench. The enemy counter
attacked In force and through lack OF
bombs the situation became critical
Gregg, although wounded, returned
alone under a terrific fire and collected
another supply. then rejoined hts party
which was now reduced. Despite a
second wound ho reorHnni2cd his men
and led them against the enemy
trenches, which he finally carried He
personally killed or wounded II Of tho
enemy and AtoGk % prisoners besides
capturing u machine guns in this
trench, Remaining with the company,
despite hts wounds. he again on sept,
80, led the men in attack until severely
wounded,
Lieut., Samuel Lewis Honey, n. G, NJ,
hlt VI Alf iHNn hhllAllNl, MhlliiDDt
regiment, for the most conspicuous
bravery during the bourbon wood oper-
ations from Sept. 81 10 oct. !, 1918. on
Sept, 27, when his company commander
n all other officers Of the company
were casualties, Honey took over the
command and skIllfully r%eorganizcd It
under very severe fire, He continued to
advance with great dash and gained his
objective, Then. finding the company
was suffering casualties from eutllad-
ing machine gun fire, he located the
machine gun nest and rushed it single
handed, capturing the gum and 10 pris-
oners. Subsequently he repealed four
enemy Counter-attaCks and after dark
again went out alone aud located an
enemy post and led a party that cap
tured this enemy position with great
skill and daring, He died of wounds
received during the last day Of the at
tack by his battalion.
Sergeant william Mortified, Fourth
battalion, Central Ontario regiment, for
the most conspicuous bravery and dpyo-
ton to duty during the attack near
Ahancourt on oct. /. 1918, when his
men were held up by An intense fire
from two machine gun emplaccments.
He attacked them both single handed
Dashing out Of a shell hole he killed the
occupants OF the first post, and
although wounded. continued the attack
on the second post and with "A homi
killed the occupants. lie refused To he
evacuated and led his platoon unit
! again severely wounded,