A meeting at the front, under remarkable circumstances, was that between two of the brothers, Harold and Jack, a few months ago. There had been an exhausting bayonet charge, and Harold’s battalion was being relieved by fresh troops when he recognised among the relief his younger brother, who left Victoria some months later than he.

Private Harold Murcutt has been in the firing line since May 22nd last. In a letter to his parents, he says that although he has become used to being hit he has never been laid up with wounds having the luck every time to be struck by a flat piece of shell in a spot not particularly vital. He has been in several bayonet charges, and at the date of his last letter was the only one remaining of ten tent mates. The nerve strain he says is awful.

It is doubtful if there is one family in the country with a finer war record than the Murcutts. This latest decoration, bestowed on Private Frank, is the second big honor gained by the brothers, Corporal Harold Murcutt, the second eldest boy, being some time ago, awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal. Quite recently a letter home told that the five brothers had met in France.