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This information was published in 1966 in An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand, edited by A. H. McLintock. It has not been corrected and will not be updated.

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VICTORIA CROSS

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Awards to New Zealanders in Other Forces

Private Thomas Cooke; 8th Battalion, Australian Imperial Forces; 24–25 July 1916; Pozieres, France; 9 September 1916. (Posthumous award.)

Captain (temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) Bernard Cyril Freyberg, D.S.O.; Royal West Surrey Regt., Commanding Hood Battalion, Royal Naval Division; 13 November 1916; north of Ancre, France; 15 December 1916. Later, as a lieutenant-general commanded the 2nd NZEF throughout the war, and was Governor-General of New Zealand, 1946–52. Created Baron Freyberg of Wellington, New Zealand, in 1951.

Second-Lieutenant William Barnard Rhodes-Moorhouse; Special Reserve, RFC; 26 April 1915; near Courtrai, France; 22 May 1915. (Posthumous award.)

Acting-Lieutenant William Edward Sanders; Royal Naval Reserve, HMS Prize; 30 April 1917; “Q” ship action at sea; 22 June 1917. Later awarded the D.S.O. and went down with his ship on 14 August 1917. A New Zealand yachting award, the Sanders Cup, is named after him.

Captain Alfred John Shout; 1st Battalion, Australian Imperial Forces; 9 August 1915; Lone Pine Trenches, Gallipoli; 15 October 1915. (Posthumous award.)

Lieutenant Percy Valentine Storkey; 19th Battalion, Australian Imperial Forces; 7 April 1918; Bois de Hangard, France; 7 June 1918.

Temporary Corporal Lawrence Carthage Weathers; 43rd Battalion, Australian Imperial Forces; 2 September 1918; north of Peronne, France; 26 December 1918. He was mortally wounded 29 September 1918 and died without learning of his Victoria Cross.