V.C.’S AWARDED TO TWO AUSTRALIANS
Killed In New Guinea
(British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, January 28.
Two Australians, Sergeant William Henry Kibby and Private Percival Eric Gratwick, have been awarded the Victoria Cross for outstanding courage and devotion to duty in lighting on Miteriya Ridge last October. Sergeant Kibby, who was left in charge of his platoon, cleared a way for his company to advance by attacking the enemy with a tommy-gun, and went out under machinegun tire to mend his platoon line communications. He later went forward alone to bomb a pocket of resistance and was killed by a burst of machinegun fire. Private Gratwick, when his platoon was held up by close-range fire, attacked an enemy post and completely destroyed the enemy with grenades. Then he charged a second post with rifle and bayonet, but was killed before he reached it.
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Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 107, 30 January 1943, Page 5
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142V.C.’S AWARDED TO TWO AUSTRALIANS Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 107, 30 January 1943, Page 5
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