Post by Les on Jul 21, 2006 17:20:05 GMT
In the Guardian yesterday (20.7.06.) - The last V.C. awarded to Australians at Gallipoli in private hands on sale next week and expected to fetch at least £300,000.
Thursday July 20, 2006
The Guardian
A Victoria Cross awarded to the officer who led a bayonet charge under machine gun fire at Gallipoli - in what one observer described as "the bravest thing I ever saw" - is predicted to sell at a record price for a VC, next week in Australia.
The medal of Captain Alfred John Shout, the most decorated of Australian soldiers at Gallipoli, could fetch more than £300,000 by some estimates. Capt Shout, originally from New Zealand, survived the charge but died four months later in the assault on Turkish trenches at Lone Pine. It is the last VC held privately of the nine awarded to Australians at Gallipoli"
and from Snelling's 'VCs of the First World War - Gallipoli'
"The posthumous award was gazetted together with the other Lone Pine VCs on 15th October. The citation reads
'For most conspicuous bravery at Lone Pine trenches, in the Gallipoli Peninsula. On the morning of 9th August 1915, with a very small party, Captain Shout charged down the trenches strongly occupied by the enemy, and personally threw four bombs among them, killing eight and routing the remainder. In the afternoon of the same day, from the position gained in the morning, he captured a further length of trench under similar conditions, and continued personally to bomb the enemy at close range, under very heavy fire, until he was severely wounded, losing his right hand and left eye. This most gallant officer has since succumbed to his injuries.'"
Thursday July 20, 2006
The Guardian
A Victoria Cross awarded to the officer who led a bayonet charge under machine gun fire at Gallipoli - in what one observer described as "the bravest thing I ever saw" - is predicted to sell at a record price for a VC, next week in Australia.
The medal of Captain Alfred John Shout, the most decorated of Australian soldiers at Gallipoli, could fetch more than £300,000 by some estimates. Capt Shout, originally from New Zealand, survived the charge but died four months later in the assault on Turkish trenches at Lone Pine. It is the last VC held privately of the nine awarded to Australians at Gallipoli"
and from Snelling's 'VCs of the First World War - Gallipoli'
"The posthumous award was gazetted together with the other Lone Pine VCs on 15th October. The citation reads
'For most conspicuous bravery at Lone Pine trenches, in the Gallipoli Peninsula. On the morning of 9th August 1915, with a very small party, Captain Shout charged down the trenches strongly occupied by the enemy, and personally threw four bombs among them, killing eight and routing the remainder. In the afternoon of the same day, from the position gained in the morning, he captured a further length of trench under similar conditions, and continued personally to bomb the enemy at close range, under very heavy fire, until he was severely wounded, losing his right hand and left eye. This most gallant officer has since succumbed to his injuries.'"
