Captain William Poata (aka Ben Porter) of A Company receives the bar to his Military Cross (MC) from
Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery. Porter had driven a group of would-be soldiers to their
medical in his Kaeo taxi, was somehow talked
into stripping for an examination himself, and was passed A1.
Next thing, as he recalled, it was 'Look out Rommel, here comes
Ben'.
Reference:
Image and caption from April 1984 The Battalion Remembers booklet, p. 30.
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