Second Lieutenant Donald Arthur Birbeck Moodie

Regiment: Irish Guards
Date published: 26/07/1918
Killed in action: No
Information: Second Lieutenant Donald Arthur Birbeck Moodie M.C., Irish Guards, the only son of Mr. Donald Hurry Moodie, Native Commissioner, Fort Usher, Matopos, Southern Rhodesia, has been awarded the Military Cross for conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. On the Company Commander becoming a casualty he took command and successfully checked several enemy attempts to get round the flank of his company, which was for some hours critically situated, and later, when the trenches held by his company were attacked and entered by the enemy, he directed his men with great skill and judgment and himself fought with splendid courage and determination.