[Award of the Bronze Star to Private John Cousins 3/400022]

Accession Number F03493
Collection type Film
Measurement 4 min
Object type Home movie
Physical description 8mm standard/b&w/silent
Maker Fletcher, Joan
Place made Australia: Victoria, Puckapunyal
Date made 15 May 1952
Access Open
Conflict Period 1950-1959
Korea, 1950-1953
Copyright Item copyright: © Australian War Memorial
Creative Commons License This item is licensed under CC BY-NC
Source credit to This item has been digitised with funding provided by Commonwealth Government.
Description

Shows the United States award the Bronze Star being presented to Private John Richard Cousins by Colonel Rufus S. Ramey, Senior Army Attache, United States Embassy Melbourne, at Puckapunyal on 15 May 1952. Private Cousins a Bren gunner 9th Platoon C Company 3 RAR distinguished himself by heroic action north of Yongyu, Korea on 22 October 1950.

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