IRISH GUARDSMAN'S EXPLOIT
HOW O-LEARY WON THE 4 VICTORIA CROSS .. (Rec. February- 22, 0:5. a.m.) -i London, February 20'. Lance-Corporal O'Leary, a crack sliot, ; formerly of the Mouuted;Police in Canada, lea the assault of tlie Irish Guards ' j on the brickfield at La Bassde, 150. yards away. He easily! outstripped his com"- 1 panions, and when nearing tho German trench dropped to tho ground, and picked off tlio wholo''five of a machine-gun ■ crew before they could slew the gutt | around. Ho then rushed a second bar- .< rieade, and shot three more. His com- i .rades completed, the rout, and the brisk; ' field was-captured in-half an houh. Had the Germans been able to-use tho raachino-guii the whole company, might ? have been wiped out. O'Leary brought in three prisoners. .- .; [Laneft-Oorporal O'Leary was awards • i «d the Victona Cross. fox ihk action.] i
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2391, 22 February 1915, Page 5
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140IRISH GUARDSMAN'S EXPLOIT Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2391, 22 February 1915, Page 5
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