Gazette Information: VICTORIA CROSS,: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/36812/supplement/5433. Major David Vivian Currie, 29th Canadian Armoured Reconnaissance Regiment (The South Alberta Regiment), Canadian Armoured Corps. During the period 18th/20th August 1944 at the Battle of Falaise, Normandy, Major Currie was in command of a small mixed force of tanks, self propelled anti-tank guns and infantry which had been ordered to cut one of the main escape routes. Having attacked the village of St. Lambert-sur-Dives and consolidated a position halfway inside it, for 36 hours he repulsed enemy attacks. Despite heavy casualties Major Currie never considered the possibility of failure and in the final assault seven enemy tanks, twelve 88mm guns and forty vehicles were destroyed, 300 Germans were killed 500 wounded and 1,100 captured. The remnants of two German armies were thus denied this escape route.
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Gazette Information: VICTORIA CROSS,: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/36812/supplement/5433. Major David Vivian Currie, 29th Canadian Armoured Reconnaissance Regiment (The South Alberta Regiment), Canadian Armoured Corps. During the period 18th/20th August 1944 at the Battle of Falaise, Normandy, Major Currie was in command of a small mixed force of tanks, self propelled anti-tank guns and infantry which had been ordered to cut one of the main escape routes. Having attacked the village of St. Lambert-sur-Dives and consolidated a position halfway inside it, for 36 hours he repulsed enemy attacks. Despite heavy casualties Major Currie never considered the possibility of failure and in the final assault seven enemy tanks, twelve 88mm guns and forty vehicles were destroyed, 300 Germans were killed 500 wounded and 1,100 captured. The remnants of two German armies were thus denied this escape route.