Gazette Information: GAZETTE ISSUE 30215, VICTORIA CROSS,: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issues/30215/supplement/7906. His Majesty the KING has been graciously pleased to approve of the award of the Victoria Cross to the undermentioned:- Second Lieutenant Thomas Harold Broadbent Maufe, Royal Garrison Artillery. For most conspicuous bravery and initiative. On 4th June 1917 at Feuchy, France, under intense artillery fire this officer on his own initiative repaired, unaided, the telephone line between the forward and rear positions, thereby enabling his battery to immediately open fire on the enemy. Second Lieutenant Maufe further saved what might have proved a fire in an advanced ammunition dump, caused by a heavy explosion, regardless of the risk he ran from the effects of gas shells which he knew were in the dump. By his great promptitude, resource and entire disregard of his own personal safety, he set an exceptionally fine example to all ranks.
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Gazette Information: GAZETTE ISSUE 30215, VICTORIA CROSS,: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issues/30215/supplement/7906. His Majesty the KING has been graciously pleased to approve of the award of the Victoria Cross to the undermentioned:- Second Lieutenant Thomas Harold Broadbent Maufe, Royal Garrison Artillery. For most conspicuous bravery and initiative. On 4th June 1917 at Feuchy, France, under intense artillery fire this officer on his own initiative repaired, unaided, the telephone line between the forward and rear positions, thereby enabling his battery to immediately open fire on the enemy. Second Lieutenant Maufe further saved what might have proved a fire in an advanced ammunition dump, caused by a heavy explosion, regardless of the risk he ran from the effects of gas shells which he knew were in the dump. By his great promptitude, resource and entire disregard of his own personal safety, he set an exceptionally fine example to all ranks.