The Metropolitan Cemeteries Board of Western Australia states he was 91 at his death in 1981.
Awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal in 1918.
From The Daily News (Perth, WA), Tuesday, July 9, 1918:
For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty when acting as stretcher bearer. Whilst bringing in a wounded man on a stretcher his fellow bearer was shot through the head, whereupon he picked up the stretcher case and carried him on his back to our lines unaided, under heavy machine gun and rifle fire. He then obtained the services of another stretcher bearer and returned to his work, which he carried on until he was wounded. Lance-Corporal L. A. Denbigh, 13th Field Ambulance (No. 213).
Awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal in 1918.
From The Daily News (Perth, WA), Tuesday, July 9, 1918:
For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty when acting as stretcher bearer. Whilst bringing in a wounded man on a stretcher his fellow bearer was shot through the head, whereupon he picked up the stretcher case and carried him on his back to our lines unaided, under heavy machine gun and rifle fire. He then obtained the services of another stretcher bearer and returned to his work, which he carried on until he was wounded. Lance-Corporal L. A. Denbigh, 13th Field Ambulance (No. 213).
The Metropolitan Cemeteries Board of Western Australia states he was 91 at his death in 1981.
Awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal in 1918.
From The Daily News (Perth, WA), Tuesday, July 9, 1918:
For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty when acting as stretcher bearer. Whilst bringing in a wounded man on a stretcher his fellow bearer was shot through the head, whereupon he picked up the stretcher case and carried him on his back to our lines unaided, under heavy machine gun and rifle fire. He then obtained the services of another stretcher bearer and returned to his work, which he carried on until he was wounded. Lance-Corporal L. A. Denbigh, 13th Field Ambulance (No. 213).
Awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal in 1918.
From The Daily News (Perth, WA), Tuesday, July 9, 1918:
For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty when acting as stretcher bearer. Whilst bringing in a wounded man on a stretcher his fellow bearer was shot through the head, whereupon he picked up the stretcher case and carried him on his back to our lines unaided, under heavy machine gun and rifle fire. He then obtained the services of another stretcher bearer and returned to his work, which he carried on until he was wounded. Lance-Corporal L. A. Denbigh, 13th Field Ambulance (No. 213).
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