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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) (about)
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Cite: http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1447644
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AUSTRALIANS ON SERVICE.
-?- -- PROMOTIONS.
ASHE.-News has been received today by cable message that the promotion of Capt. R. Bartley Ashe, M.C., has been confirmed. He enlisted in 1914 at the age of 18, and is still on active service.
He won the M.C. in 1917, and was presented with it by the King at Buckingham Palace. His brother, Pte. J. L. Ashe, who was wounded, has returned , after having been on active ser- vice for three and a half years. They are the sons of the late Mr. J. H. Ashe of Camberwell, and Mrs. Ashe, Wynnstay road, Armadale. HUTCHINS. -- Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Hutchins, of
Balaclava road, Caulfield (late of Middle Park) have been notified that their son, G. L. Hutchins, has gained a commission in the A.I.F. Lieu- tenant Hutchins is attached to the 38th Infantry
(Bendigo) Battalion.
HONOURS.
BOOL. -- Mrs. Bool, of Tarnagulla, has received word that her son, Lieutenant, A. Leigh Bool, was awarded the Military Cross in December last for conspicuous bravery on the field. He was been on active service for three years.
HAZLETT. -- Cpl. E. J., eldest son of Mrs. James
Hazlett, of Stratford, who enlisted over three
years ago and was serving with the First Tun- nelling Corps, has been awarded the Military
Medal for good work in operations in France on September 29 last.
WOODFIELD. -- Lieut. R. R., son of Mrs. E. Woodfield, of Como avenue, South Yarra, who is returning to Australia by the troopship Lancashire,
won the D.C.M. in 1917, when serving as a
sergeant in the 8th Light Horse. He was also
mentioned in despatches by General Sir Archi-
bald Murray for gallant and distinguished con- duct in the field. Has been on active service for over three years. His only brother died of wounds in France last year.
KOHLMEYER. - Lance-Corporal H. W. Kohlmeyer, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Kohlmeyer, of Bren-
beal-street, Balwyn, who has been serving in the Australian Army Medical Corps. since August
18, 1914, has been awarded the Military Medal. He was invalided home to Australia in Novem-
ber, 1915, but returned to the front in the
following year, and he is still in service over- seas.
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