PRITCHARD Albert
9/744, Trooper, Otago Mounted Rifles, WW1
7502 Legion of Frontiersmen, New Zealand
CITATION
Military Medal
Gazetted 24 January 1919, p1255, Rec No 2445
Operations on British front near Bertincourt on 3rd September 1918. For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. On two different occasions on 3rd September Trooper Pritchard with great coolness and daring carried despatches through very heavy enemy shell and machine-gun fire to Brigade Headquarters.
AWARDS
Military Medal
1914/15 Star
British War Medal
Victory Medal
Gallipoli Medallion
NOTES
Born 1 January 1886, Gisborne, New Zealand
Died 6 August 1975, Gisborne, New Zealand
Buried Taruheru Cemetery, Gisborne [RSA, Plot 178]
