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Fold3_Team · Oct 31, 2023
Gazette Information: VICTORIA CROSS,: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/35929/supplement/1117. Temporary Major Herbert Wallace Le Patourel, 2nd Battalion, The Hampshire Regiment, later the Royal Hampshire Regiment. On 3rd December 1942 at Tebourba, Tunisia, enemy forces were holding high ground and resisting all efforts to dislodge them. Major Le Patourel called for four volunteers to go with him and they attacked and silenced several of the machine gun posts. When all his men became casualties, he went on alone to engage the enemy, using his pistol and hurling hand grenades. He was eventually wounded and taken prisoner. MENTIONED IN DESPATCHES,: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/37521/supplement/1694.
Fold3_Team · Oct 31, 2023
Information: 2nd Battalion, The Hampshire Regiment, later The Royal Hampshire Regiment. Attached Parachute Regiment 26/08/1951. Ranks achieved: Lieutenant, War Substantive Captain (21/11/1942), Temporary Major (30/08/1944) and Brigadier. Seniority date 01/01/1941. Major, (Temporary Lieutenant-Colonel 02/11/1954) Royal Hampshire Regiment, Regular Army – attached Officer Parachute Regiment, seniority date 26/08/1951, Army List 1956. Deputy Commander Ghana Army 1960-61. Deputy Commander 43 Division 1961-62. Deputy Lieutenant of the County of Avon.