Gazette Information: GAZETTE ISSUE 29371, VICTORIA CROSS,: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/29371/supplement/11449. His Majesty the KING has been graciously pleased to approve of the grant of the Victoria Cross to the undermentioned, in recognition of their most conspicuous bravery and devotion to duty in the field:- No. 8273 Private Samuel Harvey, 1st Battalion, The York and Lancaster Regiment. For most conspicuous bravery in “Big Willie” trench, France, on 29th September 1915. During a heavy bombing attack by the enemy, and when more bombs were urgently required for our front, Private Harvey volunteered to fetch them. The communication trench was blocked with wounded and reinforcements, and he went backwards and forwards across the open under intense fire and succeeded in bringing up no less than thirty boxes of bombs before he was wounded in the head. It was mainly due to Private Harvey's cool bravery in supplying bombs that the enemy was eventually driven back.
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Gazette Information: GAZETTE ISSUE 29371, VICTORIA CROSS,: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/29371/supplement/11449. His Majesty the KING has been graciously pleased to approve of the grant of the Victoria Cross to the undermentioned, in recognition of their most conspicuous bravery and devotion to duty in the field:- No. 8273 Private Samuel Harvey, 1st Battalion, The York and Lancaster Regiment. For most conspicuous bravery in “Big Willie” trench, France, on 29th September 1915. During a heavy bombing attack by the enemy, and when more bombs were urgently required for our front, Private Harvey volunteered to fetch them. The communication trench was blocked with wounded and reinforcements, and he went backwards and forwards across the open under intense fire and succeeded in bringing up no less than thirty boxes of bombs before he was wounded in the head. It was mainly due to Private Harvey's cool bravery in supplying bombs that the enemy was eventually driven back.