Lance Sergeant R. J. H. Hollis, MM; born Wanganui, 23 Jul 1906; clerk; three times wounded. (Source: Murphy, W.E. 2nd NZ Divisional Artillery. p.562.)

'From these unpredictable rockets and from constant and accurate fire on the NZ gun areas, the next few days are ones the gunners concerned would like to forget. The 6th Field suffered the attention of several self-propelled guns in the night 19–20 and then came the rockets. Gunner Wise was killed on the 20th and Gunner Swords next day. Lance-Sergeant Hollis of the 4th Field, who had already displayed great determination in the Orsogna fighting, was out every day mending breaks in the telephone lines to the OP on Trocchio, always under fire. On the 20th he carried on in the same fashion, mending six breaks at one critical stage in complete disregard of the heavy shellfire landing all around him. For this he earned an MM. ' (Source: Murphy, W.E. 2nd NZ Divisional Artillery. p. 562.)

Memoirs, letters and diaries complied by daughter Julie Hollis and published as 'R J H Hollis's World War II from his memoirs, letter and diaries', New Zealand, 2018. AWMM