Private J. S. Kerr Rendering First Aid To The Wounded At A Farm, Which Was Being Heavily Shelled.      During a heavy bombardment by high explosive and gas shells on December 29th 1915, Private J. S. Kerr, of the Royal Army Medical Corps (attached 7th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery), left his dug out, near Ypres, and passed through a dense cloud of gas over 200 yards to a farm in which another battery was billeted.  Here he rendered first aid to several wounded men.  The farm was being heavily shelled at the time, but though wounded himself, he continued his work among the other wounded.  He was subsequently awarded the D.C.M. for his conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. Gunner Rafferty carrying a wounded woman to safety from a farmhouse, which was being shelled.     As the enemy were shelling a farm, on which the men of a battery of artillery had been billeted, a shell struck a room full of women and children.  A child was killed, and nearly everyone else was wounded and panic-stricken.  Leaving their dugouts, Gunners Rafferty, Holmes and Pridmore at once rescued the inhabitants of the farm, and carried them to a place of safety.  For his conspicuous Gunner J Rafferty of the 112th Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery was awarded the D.C.M.  Sergeant Kirkcaldy Bringing Up Fresh Horses, Under A Terrific Shell Fire To Save A Transport Wagon At Veldhoek.  The crisis of the first great battle at Ypres was reached on October 31st 1914.  Fierce began early in the morning along the Ypres-Menin road, and in time the attack developed in great force against the village of Gheluvelt.  To the north of it the first and third brigades of the First British Division were driven back while the 1st Coldstream Guards were wiped out in the fighting.  The entire division was swept back from its position at Gheluvelt to the woods between Veldhoek and Hooge.  At a critical moment, Sergeant H. Kirkcaldy, of the 26th (Heavy) Battery Royal Garrison Artillery, brought up fresh horses under a terrific shellfire to replace those already killed.  His gallant conduct saved a transport wagon, and he was rewarded with the D.C.M. Bombardier Nelson Working A Field Gun Single Handed And Under Heavy Fire. An attack from Cape Helles, on the shores of the Dardanelles, was begun on August 6th 1915, in support of movements on the Gallipolis Peninsula.  When every other man attached to one of the field guns had been killed or wounded during the fighting on May 9th, Bombardier J. L. Nelson, of the 4th Highland (Mountain) Brigade, Royal Garrison Artillery, continued with the greatest courage to work the gun although the enemy were directing a deadly fire on to the British at close range.  The services of Bombardier Nelson were of the utmost value at a critical period, and he was most deservedly rewarded with the D.C.M. The Recoil Of His Gun Often Threw Sergeant Bailey To The Ground.  On the 1st November 1914, at Ypres, when the guns of the 150th Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery, were being continually employed in shelling the enemy, a breech mechanism of a gun at which Sergeant D. B. Bailey was working became overheated and resulted in premature firing, causing the carriage to recoil.  Sergeant Bailey was thrown to the ground by  this on several occasions, and showed most gallant spirit in working his gun after regaining consciousness.  Again on the next day he continued to work his gun after being wounded in the head by a shrapnel bullet.  For his bravery on this occasion and on many others, he was awarded the D.C.M.