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LIEUT. GORDON CROW AWARDED MILITARY CROSS
[Welland Telegraph, 22 August 1916]
A cable from London received early on Monday morning gives the names of a number of Canadians who have been awarded honors for gallantry on the field.
Among those named is Lieut. Gordon Crow of the artillery, son of Mayor Crow and Mrs. Crow of Welland.
He has been awarded the Military Cross. For what action the award was made the despatch does not say, but a later cable yesterday said the following: “Lieut. Gordon Willson Crow repelled with a revolver a party of the enemy, then reconnoitred and sent back information of the enemy’s new position.
All Welland unites in congratulations to Mayor and Mrs. Crow in the honor that has come to their home, and to the young artilleryman whose valor on the field of battle has won him such distinction.
As Lieut. Crow’s decoration is the first Military Cross to hit a Wellander, the following paragraph about the cross, what it is and what it is for, will be of interest.
“The Military Cross was instituted on Dec 28, 1914, during the present war. It is entirely an army decoration, and no person is eligible to receive it unless he is a captain, a commissioned officer of a lower grade, or a warrant officer in the army, Indian Army or colonial forces. The cross is awarded after recommendation by the Secretary of State for war. The decoration consists of an ornamental silver cross, on each arm of which is an Imperial crown. In the centre is the Royal and Imperial cypher, “GV1” and the cross hangs by its top arm from the plain silver clasp through which the ribbon passes. The Military Cross is worn after British orders and before war medals, but does not carry with it any individual precedence, nor is the recipient entitled to use any letters after his name, as in the case with its naval counterpart, the Distinguished Service Cross.”
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