Gazette Information: VICTORIA CROSS,: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/35715/supplement/4153. Sergeant Keith Elliott, 22nd Battalion, 2nd New Zealand Expeditionary Force. On 15th July 1942 at Ruweisat, Western Desert, Sergeant Elliott, while leading his platoon in an attack under heavy machine-gun and mortar fire, was wounded in the chest. Nevertheless he carried on and led his men in a bayonet charge which resulted in the capture of four enemy machine-gun posts and an anti-tank gun. Seven of the enemy were killed and 50 taken prisoner. In spite of his wounds Sergeant Elliott refused to leave his platoon until he had reformed them and handed over the prisoners, the number of which had by then increased to 130.
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Gazette Information: VICTORIA CROSS,: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/35715/supplement/4153. Sergeant Keith Elliott, 22nd Battalion, 2nd New Zealand Expeditionary Force. On 15th July 1942 at Ruweisat, Western Desert, Sergeant Elliott, while leading his platoon in an attack under heavy machine-gun and mortar fire, was wounded in the chest. Nevertheless he carried on and led his men in a bayonet charge which resulted in the capture of four enemy machine-gun posts and an anti-tank gun. Seven of the enemy were killed and 50 taken prisoner. In spite of his wounds Sergeant Elliott refused to leave his platoon until he had reformed them and handed over the prisoners, the number of which had by then increased to 130.