Capt. David Fallon M.C.
Few soldiers in this great war have been through adventures more thrilling, dramatic and perilous than fell to the lot of Captain David Fallon.
He is a young Irishman whose first fighting was against the hillmen in their uprisings in India. He received the Indian Field Medal.
The opening of the war found him physical instructor and bayonet drill master at the Royal Military College, Duntroon, New South Wales. He went through the entire, terrible Gallipoli campaign.
He was in scores of fierce trench battles.
He commanded a tank in an amazing war adventure.
He has served as an aërial observer, spotted enemy positions and fought enemy aeroplanes.
On the road to Thiepval with a shoulder smashed by shrapnel he remained in command of his men behind barricades made of the dead and for twenty-two hours held off the Germans until reinforcements arrived.