Post by anthony on Apr 11, 2009 1:02:39 GMT
All 15 Victoria Cross awards for the Palestine campaign were for action in Palestine and in what is now Israel with no awards for either the Sinai or Syria. However, the London Gazette incorrectly states that four of the awards were for actions in Egypt and this error is repeated in the 1953 War Office list of Victoria Cross recipients. The four recipients:
Lt F H McNamara, AFC
2Lt J M Craig, RSF
Pte R E Cruikshank, Lond Scot
Rfm Karanbahadur Rana. 2/3rd Gurkhas
The March 2009 edition of The Journal of the Victoria Cross Society has my article on Palestine VCs. I note the remarkable fact that all 23 awards for Mesopotamia were awarded before the first land Victoria Cross for Palestine was awarded in the period between the Second and Third Battles of Gaza.
Lt F H McNamara, AFC
2Lt J M Craig, RSF
Pte R E Cruikshank, Lond Scot
Rfm Karanbahadur Rana. 2/3rd Gurkhas
The March 2009 edition of The Journal of the Victoria Cross Society has my article on Palestine VCs. I note the remarkable fact that all 23 awards for Mesopotamia were awarded before the first land Victoria Cross for Palestine was awarded in the period between the Second and Third Battles of Gaza.