Brig Harry Honnor, CB, MVO

Brig Harry Honnor, CB, MVO receives his Korean Presidential Unit Citation from the Auckland based Consul General for the Republic of Korea, Mr Dae-hee Lee, [click link to picture] in Whangarei on Long Tan Day, 18 August 2011. Brig Honnor is one of only two NZ gunners who fought at both Kapyong and Long Tan so the presentation of the Kapyong citation on Long Tan day was most appropriate. Brig Honnor was AirOP at Kapyong and BC 161 Bty at Long Tan. The other NZer at both battles was Bill Giles, gun number at Kapyong and BC's Survey Sgt at Long Tan. Sadly Bill could not be present at the function as his wife Emma was ill.
The other recipients of the Citation in Whangarei were:
John Earl (Jack) Hucker
Donald Campbell Clotworthy
Charles Adam Baker
Thomas James Cottle
Richard Allen Moody
Mervin Ernest Read
Rex Ambrose Sisley
Mrs Joan Yates, widow of Bombadier Joseph Alan Yates

The RNZA congratulates them all.

Also of note was the presentation by Mrs Joan Yates of a framed print of the Terence Cunoe painting of A Company, 3 RAR under attack at Kapyong and a framed and named photograph of the original intake into 16 Field Regiment at Waiouru: Fox Troop, 162 Bty in mid 1950.

Both of these presentations were gratefully accepted by Colonel Commandant Barry Dreyer on behalf of the Royal Regiment.