John Cox Receives His

Third Decoration

F FORMER Roadmaster John W. Cox, of the New Guinea Administration, has just been awarded a decoration (the Military Medal) “for bravery and devo tion to duty in attacking and destroying a numerically superior force of Japanese between the Bwuissy and Buang Rivers,

This is the second time that Lieut. Cox (now of ANGAU) has won the Mili tary Medal, and this is his third decora tion. He is a veteran of World War I; and in the course of that argument, over 25 years ago, young John Cox was awarded the Military Medal and the Dis tinguislDed Conduct Medal. As d e m onstrated 18 months ago, he is still a useful man in the jungle— and in a fight.

J. W. Cox, photographed in Sydney in 1939.