PERRY Walter James
3/165a, Sergeant, 1st Field Ambulance, New Zealand Medical Corps, WW1
Legion of Frontiersmen, New Zealand

CITATION
Military Medal
Gazetted 14 May 1919, p6063
Operations in front of Crevecourt (Sheet 57B G.35.d) on October 1st 1918.  For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty.  Sergeant Perry was in charge of the forward Bearer Relay Post.  Throughout the day he was under constant heavy shellfire and he passed backwards and forwards between the RAP's and BRP's arranging for and superintending the evacuation of wounded.

KNOWN AWARDS
Military Medal
1914-1915 Star
British War Medal
Victory Medal

NOTES
Born 31 December 1891 Gore, New Zealand
Died
Buried
BATTLE HONOURS
Behobeho          East Africa 1915 - 1917          Nyangao          Kilimanjaro          Great War 1917          Belgium 1914 -18
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