London, June 16.
Irish Guards and Royal Irish Fusiliers figure prominently in the latest list of immediate awards made by the Commander-in-Chief of the British Expeditionary Force.
Among the Irish Guards decorated is a sergeant who, with a few men, held a post at a street corner in Boulogne for two hours, thus enabling his battalion to withdraw.
The sergeant is William John Gilchrist, who is awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal.
Gilchrist was in charge of an rik rifle, and although under machinegun fire he showed greatest contempt for danger and continued to keep the gun in action. He was instrumental in setting an enemy tank on fire, thus blocking the street, down which the enemy was trying to move.
Later. though wounded, he refused to leave his anti-tank rife until it and the Bren guns supporting it jammed through overtiring.
Other awards to Irish Guards are:
Distinguished Service Order (D.S.0.) for Lieut.-Col. Joseph Charles Hayden "Military Crosses (M.C. for Captain C. R. McCausland and Lieut. J. D. Hornung; Military Medals (M.M.) for Lane Corporals I. Burke and T. H, Mawhinhey, and Lance-Sergeant M. Carragher in the "Royal Irish Fusiliers, the awards are.
Military Crosses to Acting Captain P. C. Murphy. Lieut. J. H. Coldwell-Horsfall, 2nd Lieuts. G. H. Martin, C. P. J. D. O'Farrell, M. G. Johnson and A. S. Irwin.
Distinguished Conduct Medals (D. C. M.) to Sergeant-Major W. Good and Sergeant-Major Gray Military Medals to Fusiliers Grainey Hanna, Jackson and Private C.
T. V. Clarke.—Reuter. to Indian Donation to French Army London, June 16, The Viceroy of India has donated from the War Purposes Fund 500,000 rupees to be used for the benefit of the French army, in whatever manner President Lebrun thinks fit—Reuter. many kinds, and that this Govern-meat, so long as the Allied Governments continue to resist, will redouble its efforts in this direction, I believe that every week that passes wil] see additional material on the way to the Allied nations,
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