Gazette Information: VICTORIA CROSS,: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issues/29328/pages/10154. Second Lieutenant Benjamin Handley Geary, 4th Battalion, The East Surrey Regiment, attached 1st Battalion. On 20th and 21st April 1915 on Hill 60 near Ypres, Belgium, Second Lieutenant Geary led his men across exposed open ground swept by fierce enemy fire to join survivors of the Bedfordshire Regiment in a crater at the top of the hill, which he held against artillery and bomb attacks during the evening and night. Each attack was repulsed mainly owing to the fine example and personal gallantry of Second Lieutenant Geary. He deliberately exposed himself to enemy fire in order to see by the light of flares the whereabouts of the enemy. He was severely wounded early on 21st April.
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Gazette Information: VICTORIA CROSS,: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issues/29328/pages/10154. Second Lieutenant Benjamin Handley Geary, 4th Battalion, The East Surrey Regiment, attached 1st Battalion. On 20th and 21st April 1915 on Hill 60 near Ypres, Belgium, Second Lieutenant Geary led his men across exposed open ground swept by fierce enemy fire to join survivors of the Bedfordshire Regiment in a crater at the top of the hill, which he held against artillery and bomb attacks during the evening and night. Each attack was repulsed mainly owing to the fine example and personal gallantry of Second Lieutenant Geary. He deliberately exposed himself to enemy fire in order to see by the light of flares the whereabouts of the enemy. He was severely wounded early on 21st April.