VICTORIA CROSS AWARD
AUSTRALIAN IN NEW GUINEA Rec. 9.30 a.m. CANBERRA, Feb. 9. The second Victoria Cross of the New Guinea campaign has been awarded posthumously to Private Bruce Steel Kingsbury, of Melbourne, who on August 29, 1942, by a single-handed Bren-gun charge, saved his battalion headquarters.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 34, 10 February 1943, Page 3
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