DOHERTY Percy George

7/437 2nd Lieutenant, Canterbury Mounted Rifles, WW1

802394 Major, Home Guard Service, WW2

25947 Legion of Frontiersmen, New Zealand

CITATION

Military Cross

Gazetted 16 September 1918, p11054

For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty during an attack. After the first trench was taken, he rallied his men to meet a counter-attack, which was repulsed.  The enemy then began another counter-attack, and, although slightly wounded, he led his men forward under very heavy rifle and machine-gun fire, and drove the enemy back a second time.

AWARDS

Military Cross

1914-15 Star

British War Medal

Victory Medal

War Medal

New Zealand War Service Medal

Legion Pioneer Axe [1954]

Legion Long Service & Efficiency Medal [1951]

NOTES

Born 10 Jan 1890 Tinwald, Ashburton, New Zealand

Died 12 Aug 1970 Tauranga, New Zealand

Buried Pyes Pa Cemetery [PYES PA*C585]