Gazette Information: VICTORIA CROSS,: http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/35698/supplements/3953. No. WX.9858 Private Arthur Stanley Gurney, 2/48th Battalion (South Australia), Australian Military Forces. On 22nd July 1942 at Tel-el-Eisa, Egypt, the company to which Private Gurney belonged was held up by intense machine-gun fire, heavy casualties being suffered, including all the officers. Private Gurney, realising the seriousness of the situation, charged the nearest machine-gun post, silencing the guns and bayoneting three of the crew. He bayoneted two more at a second post, and was then knocked down by a grenade, but picked himself up and charged a third post. Nothing more was seen of him until later, when his body was found by his comrades, whose advance he had made possible.
Fold3_Team · Oct 31, 2023
Gazette Information: VICTORIA CROSS,: http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/35698/supplements/3953. No. WX.9858 Private Arthur Stanley Gurney, 2/48th Battalion (South Australia), Australian Military Forces. On 22nd July 1942 at Tel-el-Eisa, Egypt, the company to which Private Gurney belonged was held up by intense machine-gun fire, heavy casualties being suffered, including all the officers. Private Gurney, realising the seriousness of the situation, charged the nearest machine-gun post, silencing the guns and bayoneting three of the crew. He bayoneted two more at a second post, and was then knocked down by a grenade, but picked himself up and charged a third post. Nothing more was seen of him until later, when his body was found by his comrades, whose advance he had made possible.