Signalman Murdo Macaskill
Royal Naval Voluntary Reserve
Kenneth Macaskill
Royal Naval Reserve
Drummer Norman Macleod
1st Seaforth Highlanders
Sergeant Donald Afrin
Ross Mountain Battery
Major Alfred L. Robertson
Son of Ossian Robertson, V.D., Bank House
Royal Army Medical Corps
Awarded Officer of the Military Division of the Order of the British Empire for valuable services rendered in connection with the military operations in France. Was several times mentioned in despatches and awarded Croix de Guerre (with palm leaf) by the French Government. The following is the memorandum in connection with the award put on record by General des Vallieres, head of the French Military Mission to the British Army on the Western Front:—
"While engaged on the night of 12th April, 1917, in attending wounded men at Monchy-le-Preux he discovered in an underground cellar two women in a state of complete exhaustion. He had them fed and provisions given them, and he himself returned on the night of the 13th, exposed to an intense artillery fire, to rescue the women (one of whom was 80 years of age and the other paralytic) in order to have them removed and conveyed to Arras.
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