Chris Boonzaier Posted March 24, 2014 Posted March 24, 2014 2143 Corporal Ernest Albert Corey of Cooma, NSW, enlisted on 13 January 1916 into the 55th Battalion and served as a stretcher bearer. Mr Corey was the only soldier in the British Commonwealth to be awarded the Military Medal four times.
Tony Posted March 25, 2014 Posted March 25, 2014 He was also recommended for the VC twice! His WWI and WWII records are online - he volunteered again in Sept. 1941 and states his trade or occupation as Cleaner. Tony
paddywhack Posted March 25, 2014 Posted March 25, 2014 you think they would have at least downgraded a vc to a DCM!
Tony Posted March 25, 2014 Posted March 25, 2014 you think they would have at least downgraded a vc to a DCM! I suppose they had their reasons and they may well be somewhere in his 90 page service record.
peter monahan Posted March 27, 2014 Posted March 27, 2014 I copied the photo, and another I found on line, to the new unit with which I am doing WWI re-enacting: 3rd Canadian Casualty Clearing Station, staffed by Canadian nurses and stretcher bearers. Can't imagine actually going out into the trenches and No Man's Land without even the security blanklet of a pistol or rilfe! Not surprising that 2 of 3 doubel VCs were to medi al Corps types, IMHO.
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