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DECORATED for COURAGE Sergt. Polkinghorne wins Distinguished Conduct Medal while serving with the Engineers, Sergt. C. C. Polkinghorne has been awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal while serving with the Engineers. He remained for a long period in an advanced area maintaining and repairing telephone wires. His work was carried out continually under shell fire, and he showed the greatest courage and initiative in keeping the lines repaired. On one occasion when a buried cable was broken in several places just before an attack, he worked continuously for twelve hours under intense fire until the whole line was repaired. It was due to his energy and resource that communication was maintained. Sergt. Polkinghorne went overseas in January 1916. He was formerly manager of the ledger department of the; Harris Abattoir Co. Ltd. His father is C, E, Polkinghorne, general store keeper in Limehouse, Ont. It was he who raised the roof of the adjoining house and built the second story. He had another son. Daughter Dolly visited friends here in the 1940's. DECORATED FOR COURAGE Sergt. Polkinghorne Wins Distinguished Conduct Medal While Serving With Engineers. Sergt. C. C. Polkinghorne has been awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal while serving with the Engineers. He remained for a long period in an advanced area maintaining and repairing telephone wires. His work was carried out continually under shell fire, and he showed the greatest courage and initiative in keeping the lines repaired. On one occasion, when a buried cable was broken in several places just before an attack, he worked continuously for twelve hours under intense fire until the whole line was repaired. It was due to his energy and resource that communication was maintained. Sergt. Polkinghorne went overseas in January, 1916. He was formerly manager of the ledger department of the Harris Abattoir Co., Ltd. His father is G. E. Polkinghorne, of Limehouse, Ont.