Two villagers won Distinguished Conduct Medals.
Members of the regiment received the following decorations: three Distinguished Service Orders (DSOs) and one Bar; five Military Crosses with one Bar; nine Distinguished Conduct Medals with one Bar; 14 Military Medals and 17 Mentioned in Despatches.
Other awards to members of the 28th (Māori) Battalion included: seven Distinguished Service Orders; one Member of the Order of the British Empire; 21 Military Crosses and three bars; and 13 Distinguished Conduct Medals; 51 Military Medals; one British Empire Medal and one US Silver Star.
Members of the battalion received the following decorations: three Distinguished Service Orders and one bar, one Member of the Order of the British Empire, 20 Military Crosses, 17 Distinguished Conduct Medals, 94 Military Medals with three bars, three Meritorious Service Medals, 17 Mentioned in Despatches and five awards from other Allied nations.
Members of the unit received the following awards: one Distinguished Service Order DSOO), two Orders of the British Empire (OBEs), 19 Military Crosses (MCs) with one bar, seven Distinguished Conduct Medals (DCMs), 85 Military Medals (MMs) with eight bars, six Meritorious Service Medals, 21 Mentions in Despatches, and 10 foreign awards.
Léo Major, (born January 23 , 1921 New Bedford, Massachusetts, U.S. died October 12, 2008, Montréal, Quebec, Canada), decorated Canadian hero of World War II and the Korean War, known for being the only Canadian to win the Distinguished Conduct Medal in two separate wars.
Major was awarded a bar to his Distinguished Conduct Medal for this action.
"Nutty" Hazle took part in both as a medical orderly/stretcher bearer, winning the Distinguished Conduct Medal and Bar.
He used to say that his father, William Archer, was a colonel in the Somerset Light Infantry who had received a Distinguished Conduct Medal for his service in the First World War.
His wounds earned him a medal -- the D.C.M., the Distinguished Conduct Medal -- as he had received them rallying his company and leading them to safety (after his officers had been killed or wounded) in the face of a German counterattack at a place called Mouquet farm.
He was supposed to receive the Distinguished Conduct Medal for this action, an award second only to the Victoria Cross for gallantry in action, but he allegedly refused on the grounds that he considered Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery too incompetent to even hand out medals.
