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MILITARY HONOURS.

Sir. C. Shelley, of Stawell, has received a

tor from hi« --on, Sergeant A. W. Shelley, Rtnttng Hint tie lint boen awarded the medal mili tain a Frencli decoration, for general good work nu

eotif-nicuui.tt bravery on the Somme. Sergeant Shelley went through the Gallipoli campaign, where hu wah wounded, ami {« now at »n instruc- tion «¡chool at BUlcy. , Ile hu» three hrolhcrs ut

the front.

Lieutenant Humphrey, of (. len curry, has been awarded (he Military Ctos,.t He enlisted a

priVltl*. y

Arnonir the recipients of honour« for valour at the front is Lieutenant lthyn Llewellyn .Tones, son of Mr. W, Trevalljn-.Joncrt, Journalist. Lieutenant .lone» reUnguishi-d a position at Shanghai, in China, to join the colour-. He enlisted in the King*.-, «oyal Kittos. In July last he led a mirccsj fnl charge into the German tronches at Ypres, and with lift men killed over 200 of the enemv mid captured 25. On his return to tha lSri.ir.li lines he wa« bailly wounded in the neck, lie wa« invalided to Kngland. On Align it 2 he wai awarded the iiilitary Cross and promoted., Ltoutcnnnt .Iones wns boni nt Carlton, nnd spent some time in the Cranbourne and Dandenong district«.

Word has boen rood*eil that Staff-Sergeant, It, R. Gardiner, son of Mr. and Mr«. Gardiner, of iy ChandOH street. Coburg, has been mentioned in .de-paU'lK*«* nnd .recommended .for the Meritorloin Servite Medal, and has received his comrnfoslon nt Tilnïty College, Oimhridge/1 gaining' fifth piare out of 200 ciiudidates. * Before chlinting in the A.I.K., StafT-Sergiunt Gardinrr was a blwlcnt at the University, being resident at Hie Teat-lucre' Training College. Another how. who recently cn* listed, It. A. (¡artlinrr, of Hie education depart- ment, isa corporal In the X.I.F.

Mm. Bertie, of 131 Graham street, Tort Mel» bourne, has receded word from Trance that her «on, U-inoe-corporal .1.. Bertie, ha» won the Military .Medal for braver}' I" rescuing;,tt mate under heavy .shell fire. ", , , .. (' ,,v i«. »i »

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