Shortly after the announcement of the posthumous award of the V.C. to Captain (Temporary Major) Herbert Wallace Le Patourel, 26, of the Hampshire Regiment, the War Office stated that it had been ascertained that he is a prisoner in Italy. Patourel was awarded the V.C. for conspicuous gallantry in the Tebourba area on December 3, 1942, and his was the first V.C. of the Tunisian campaign.
General Hsiung Shih-hui, leader in the Chinese Military Mission to Washington, inspecting the equipment of airborne troops at a R.A.F. station in Britain which he visited on his way back to China.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 September 1943, Page 3
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98Shortly after the announcement of the posthumous award of the V.C. to Captain (Temporary Major) Herbert Wallace Le Patourel, 26, of the Hampshire Regiment, the War Office stated that it had been ascertained that he is a prisoner in Italy. Patourel was awarded the V.C. for conspicuous gallantry in the Tebourba area on December 3, 1942, and his was the first V.C. of the Tunisian campaign. General Hsiung Shih-hui, leader in the Chinese Military Mission to Washington, inspecting the equipment of airborne troops at a R.A.F. station in Britain which he visited on his way back to China. Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 September 1943, Page 3
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