William placed an envelope on the side and nodded to it. "You can keep those. It's every single news article and publicly available document relating to his awards........64 pages from different sources"

He continued "3 months into johns deployment to India as a private while on foot patrol with his section. He came under fire and provided cover fire to allow his comrades to pull back including the retreaval of one soldier who was wounded. John took ran out of ammunition and continued to fire using ammunition from his wounded comrade"

He took one of the beers and opened it. "His second mention was for finding and securing an enemy weapons cache in a village and holding it until relieved by the rest of his company"