London, Sept. 18, 'THE frst military awards for gallantry in the "Battle of Britain"
are announced in the London Gazette, Temporary Second-Lieutenant J. D, Kenyon Hague, of the Scots Guards, receives the Military Cross for heroism on August 18, when he was in charge of a detachment at an aerodrome which was attacked by enemy bombers in five successive waves.
His headquarters were destroyed by a bomb in the first wave and he was buried In debris. Extricated by a sergeant but suffering from shock and severe pain in his shoulder, which was crushed by falling mason. ry, he immediately visited and found that men in a reserve trench had been driven out of it by burning petrol from a petrol. tank lorry which had exploded.
Second-Lieutenant Hague collecter! these men into {wo parties and ted them to other shelters, the farthest
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