Gazette Information: VICTORIA CROSS,: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/35462/supplement/833. Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Edward Cumming, Commander 2/12th Frontier Force Regiment, Indian Army. On 3rd January 1942 near Kuantan, Malaya, the Japanese made a furious attack on the battalion and a strong enemy force penetrated the position. Lieutenant-Colonel Cumming, with a small party of men immediately led a counter-attack and although all his men became casualties and he himself had two bayonet wounds in the stomach he managed to restore the situation sufficiently for the major portion of the battalion and its vehicles to be withdrawn. Later he drove in a carrier under very heavy fire, collecting isolated detachments of his men and was again wounded. His gallant actions helped the brigade to withdraw safely. OFFICER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE,: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/36037/supplement/2517.
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Gazette Information: VICTORIA CROSS,: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/35462/supplement/833. Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Edward Cumming, Commander 2/12th Frontier Force Regiment, Indian Army. On 3rd January 1942 near Kuantan, Malaya, the Japanese made a furious attack on the battalion and a strong enemy force penetrated the position. Lieutenant-Colonel Cumming, with a small party of men immediately led a counter-attack and although all his men became casualties and he himself had two bayonet wounds in the stomach he managed to restore the situation sufficiently for the major portion of the battalion and its vehicles to be withdrawn. Later he drove in a carrier under very heavy fire, collecting isolated detachments of his men and was again wounded. His gallant actions helped the brigade to withdraw safely. OFFICER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE,: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/36037/supplement/2517.