McPHERSON Robert

2/405 2nd Lieutenant, New Zealand Field Artillery, WW1

1143 Legion of Frontiersmen, New Zealand

CITATION

Military Cross

Gazetted 29 October 1915, p10733

For conspicuous gallantry during operations in the Gallipoli Peninsula on 27-28th August 1915.  His battery was heavily shelled by high explosive shells during an assault on Hill 60.  One gun was put out of action, and a piy containing over fifty high explosive shells became surrounded by blazing brushwood.  One slight explosion had already taken place when 2nd Lieutenant McPherson, at great personal risk, went down into the pit and assisted in extinguishing the fire.

Mention in Despatches

Gazetted 28 January 1916, p1209

In connection with the operations described in General Ian Hamilton's despatch dated 11 December 1915.

KNOWN AWARDS

Military Cross

1914-15 Star

British War Medal

Victory Medal

Mention in Despatches

New Zealand Long & Efficient Service Medal

New Zealand Territorial Service Medal

New Zealand Service Medal

Gallipoli Lapel Badge

Gallipoli Medalion

NOTES

Born 1 January 1892 Dunedin, New Zealand

Died 22 September 1974 Christchurch, New Zealand

Buried unknown