Sgt. E.A. Hosford received award

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Trout Brook boy presented Croix de Guerre overseas.

Sgt. Edwin Allison Hosford, overseas, son of Mr. and Mrs. Percy Hosford ofTrout Brook, has been awarded the Croix de Guerre Avec Etoile de Bronze by the French Government.

Sgt. Hosford is twenty-one years of age. He enlisted in January 1943, and proceeded overseas in March 1944 where he is serving with the North Shore (N.B.) Regt. He was born July 30, 1923, in Trout Brook, N.B., and was living in Moncton, N.B., where he was employed with the Summer Company Ltd., prior to enlisting in the Canadian Army.

The Citation

“On July 4, 1944, the attack on Carpiquet, France, commenced. At this time Pte. Edwin Allison Hosford was a rifleman. Casualties almost at the outset left Pte. Hosford in charge of his section and with no orders as to the situation with which he was then confronted. His company was held up in the grain fields outside Carpiquet by machine gun fire.

“Pte. Hosford, on his own initiative took three men and advancing under fire cleaned out the enemy machine gun post, thus allowing his company to proceed to its objective which he was then instrumental in consolidating, although the position was under constant shelling. Pte. Hosford, with total disregard for his own safety, continued to move about encouraging and advising his platoon who were by this time without officers or senior non-commissioned officers.

“The position was then heavily counter-attacked by infantry and tanks, but so skillful had been Pte. Hosford’s dispositions, and so inspiring his example and determination, that though greatly outnumbered the position resisted all the efforts of the enemy though counter-attacked again and again.

“There is no doubt that his private’s conducted contributed directly to the success of his company and battalion.” (Page 2, May 4, 1945, The North Shore Leader).