On both these occasions I received medals and was even mentioned in despatches.
这两次我都获得了勋章，连新闻报道都提到了我。
2
Understanding that colonel french had brought on board the governor's despatches, i asked the captain for those letters that were to be under my care .
我知道费伦奇上校上船时带来了总督的信件，于是就向船长索要那些由我携带的信。
3
He was a man full of vanity and self-conceit; a man who, instead of sober despatches to his superiors in England, wrote flowery accounts of himself and his wonderful doings;