{"id":3442,"date":"2018-03-13T16:54:03","date_gmt":"2018-03-13T16:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kildare.ie\/ehistory\/?p=3442"},"modified":"2018-03-13T16:54:03","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T16:54:03","slug":"distinguished-conduct-medal-for-athy-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/distinguished-conduct-medal-for-athy-man\/","title":{"rendered":"DISTINGUISHED CONDUCT MEDAL FOR ATHY MAN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Leinster Leader <\/strong><\/em><strong>February 12 1916<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Distinguished Conduct Medal for Athy man<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bombardier Hick, of the Royal Field Artillery, and eldest son of ex-Sergeant Hicks, R.I.C., was on a visit to his father from France for the past seven days.\u00a0 He is recommended for the Distinguished Conduct Medal.\u00a0 A shell burst amongst a party of soldiers near where young Hicks was passing.\u00a0 One of the party fell, his thigh being shattered.\u00a0 The mans\u2019 comrades dispersed quickly, leaving him to bleed to death if not otherwise succoured.\u00a0 Hicks rushed to his assistance and after bandaging him carried him for a quarter of a mile to the dressing station.\u00a0 A General was a witness of the whole affair and recommended young Hicks for the D.C.M.\u00a0 It is a pleasure to us to record this deed of heroism and comradeship.\u00a0 Athy is proud of him.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Leinster Leader February 12 1916 Distinguished Conduct Medal for Athy man Bombardier Hick, of the Royal Field Artillery, and eldest son of ex-Sergeant Hicks, R.I.C., was on a visit to his father from France for the past seven days.\u00a0 He is recommended for the Distinguished Conduct Medal.\u00a0 A shell burst amongst a party of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspaper-articles"],"blocksy_meta":[],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Kildare Local Studies","author_link":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/author\/localstudies\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}