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LT. R. M. LAW WINS M.C.

Awarded Coveted Decoration While in Command of British Tank - Enlisted as Private.

Lieut. Ralph M. Law, son of Rev. Professor and Mrs. Robert Law, 639 Huron street, who enlisted as a private in the 19th Battalion during 1915, has been awarded the Military Cross. As far as is known he won the decoration while in charge of a British tank. Enemy fire was concentrated upon the clumsy movable fortress and it was eventually put out of commission and necessarily abandoned.

Lieut. Law succeeded, however, in removing his machine gun and taking possession of a near trench where the gun was mounted, its effective fire checking a threatening enemy counter-attack and preventing the capture of the abandoned tank.

Lieut. Law was recommended for a commission and sent to England for instructional training. Upon the completion of the officers' short course, he was commissioned as a lieutenant in the newly organized tank corps, which boats the legendary dragon as its crest. He was soon after given command of a tank, its guns and its crew.