THREE MORE V.C’S

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21547, 28 October 1944, Page 6

THREE MORE V.C’S

ONE NORMANDY FEAT GOTHIC LINE INCIDENT GURKHA SFFICER DIES RUGBY. Oct. 26. The award of three Victoria Crosses is announced. They are to Captain David Jamieson, Royal Norfolk Regiment, Lieutenant Gerald Hess Norton, M.M., South African forces, attached to a Hampshire unit, and Lieutenant (acting Captain) Michael Altmond Sixth Gurkha Rifles, who receives the award posthumously. Captain Jamieson was in command of a company which established a bridgehead over the Orne, soulit of Grimbosq. During enemy counterattacks the brunt of the lighting fell on his company, and two of three tanks supporting the company were destroyed. Captain Jamieson left the trench under close-range _ tire and went over to direct the lire of the remaining tank, but, as he could not gel in touch with the commander of the tank by outside telephone, he climbed upon it in full view of the enemy. He was wounded but refused to be evacuated. He reorganised the company, walking among the men in full view of the enemy. Lieutenant Norton, commanding a platoon during the attack on a Gothic Line feature, was leading a platoon pinned down by heavy fire. Singlehanded, he attacked first one and then another machine-gun position, killing or capturing the enemy. Lieutenant Allmond, commanding a platoon in the attack on a Pirihmi road bridge, charged single-handed against desperate enemy _ resistance and inspired his men by his splendid example. His men captured the objective. Two days later he again dashed against the enemy through marshy ground swept by macTir.cgun lire. On June 23 in the final attack on a railway bridge at Mogaung, Lieutenant Allmond, though suffering from trench feet moved forward alone through deep mud and shell-holes and charged a machine-gun nest single-handed but was mortally wounded.