Gazette Information: VICTORIA CROSS,: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issues/29555/supplement/4119. Captain, The Reverend, Temporary Chaplain Edward Noel Mellish, Army Chaplains' Department. During the period 27th-29th March 1916 at St Eloi, Belgium, Captain The Reverend Noel Mellish went backwards and forwards under continuous and very heavy shell and machine-gun fire between our original trenches and those captured from the enemy, in order to tend and rescue wounded men. He brought in 10 badly wounded men on the first day from ground swept by machine-gun fire. He went back on the second day and brought in 12 more and on the night of the third day he took charge of a party of volunteers and once more returned to the trenches to rescue the remaining wounded. MILITARY CROSS,: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issues/31684/supplement/15438. MENTIONED IN DESPATCHES,: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issues/31446/supplement/8786. GAZETTE ISSUE 31446, MENTIONED IN DESPATCHES.
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Gazette Information: VICTORIA CROSS,: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issues/29555/supplement/4119. Captain, The Reverend, Temporary Chaplain Edward Noel Mellish, Army Chaplains' Department. During the period 27th-29th March 1916 at St Eloi, Belgium, Captain The Reverend Noel Mellish went backwards and forwards under continuous and very heavy shell and machine-gun fire between our original trenches and those captured from the enemy, in order to tend and rescue wounded men. He brought in 10 badly wounded men on the first day from ground swept by machine-gun fire. He went back on the second day and brought in 12 more and on the night of the third day he took charge of a party of volunteers and once more returned to the trenches to rescue the remaining wounded. MILITARY CROSS,: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issues/31684/supplement/15438. MENTIONED IN DESPATCHES,: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issues/31446/supplement/8786. GAZETTE ISSUE 31446, MENTIONED IN DESPATCHES.