VICTORIA CROSS
AWARDED TO CANADIAN
Rec. noon
LONDON, Nov. 26,
The Victoria Cross has been awarded to the Canadian, Major David Vivian Currie, aged 32, for gallant and effective leadership of a small, mixed force of tanks, anti-tank guns, and infantry which, after a fierce battle'lasting for three days and nights, routed 3000 Germans and closed one of the main escape routes from the Falaise pocket.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 128, 27 November 1944, Page 6
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