Gazette Information: VICTORIA CROSS,: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/36833/supplement/5673. Lieutenant (Temporary Captain) John Niel Randle (130097), The Royal Norfolk Regiment (Radlett, Hertfordshire). During the period 4th/6th May 1944 at Kohima, Assam, India, Captain Randle took command of the company when his company commander had been wounded and in spite of being wounded himself inspired his men with his initiative and courage. On 6th May he led an attack which was almost immediately held up by heavy machine-gun fire from an enemy bunker and, realising the importance of destroying it, charged the post single-handed. Although mortally wounded, he silenced the gun with a grenade thrown through the bunker slit, and then flung his body across the slit so that the aperture should be completely sealed.
Fold3_Team · Oct 31, 2023
Gazette Information: VICTORIA CROSS,: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/36833/supplement/5673. Lieutenant (Temporary Captain) John Niel Randle (130097), The Royal Norfolk Regiment (Radlett, Hertfordshire). During the period 4th/6th May 1944 at Kohima, Assam, India, Captain Randle took command of the company when his company commander had been wounded and in spite of being wounded himself inspired his men with his initiative and courage. On 6th May he led an attack which was almost immediately held up by heavy machine-gun fire from an enemy bunker and, realising the importance of destroying it, charged the post single-handed. Although mortally wounded, he silenced the gun with a grenade thrown through the bunker slit, and then flung his body across the slit so that the aperture should be completely sealed.