Rank:

Lance-Corporal

Unit:

1st Battalion The Leicestershire Regiment, British Indian Army

Awarded on:

September 26th, 1939

On 10 June 1939 near Razmak Zerai in Waziristan, hostilities were reported in the locality of Dun picquet, and the right and left sections of Lance Corporal Farry's platoon were withdrawn. As the centre section commanded by Lance Corporal Farry began to retire, heavy fire broke out from the knife edge 50 yards to his right. One man in his section was killed. Lance Corporal Farry was badly wounded in the right arm but stopped the retirement and ordered his section to open fire on the enemy. Resting his own rifle on a rock, he also fired and continued to command his section until the enemy were beaten off. He was again wounded in two places.
Bit for his gallantry in stopping and fighting the enemy at close range, more casualties would have occured, and the enemy would have scored a success and captured arms. As it was, they were beaten off with one known casualty, with an increase in morale to our own force at the expense of the enemy."