'At La Basse Ville on 31st July 1917 this Stretcher Bearer, after carrying wounded all day, moved forward with his Company to the village that night. Throughout the night and all next day in broad daylight he evacuated wounded from the front line over the open ground and under heavy shell fire. He dressed the last wounded man of his Company in the open in La Basse Ville Village under heavy shell fire, and though exhausted by continuous work for two days and a night, with the assistance of another man, he carried the wounded man out a journey which took three hours. He showed throughout an example of the utmost courage and devotion to duty.'
Source: London Gazette
Date: 28 September 1917