Gazette Information: GAZETTE ISSUE 29240, VICTORIA CROSS,: http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/29240/supplements/7280. His Majesty the KING has been graciously pleased to award the Victoria Cross to the undermentioned:- No. 10073 Lance-Corporal Joseph Tombs, 1st Battalion, The King's (Liverpool Regiment). For most conspicuous gallantry near Rue du Bois, on 16th June 1915. On his own initiative, crawled out repeatedly under a very heavy shell and machine-gun fire, to bring in wounded men who were lying about 100 yards in front of our trenches. He rescued four men, one of whom he dragged back by means of a rifle sling placed round his own neck and the man's body. This man was so severely wounded that unless he had been immediately attended to he must have died. CROSS OF ST GEORGE.: http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/29275/supplements/8509.
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Gazette Information: GAZETTE ISSUE 29240, VICTORIA CROSS,: http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/29240/supplements/7280. His Majesty the KING has been graciously pleased to award the Victoria Cross to the undermentioned:- No. 10073 Lance-Corporal Joseph Tombs, 1st Battalion, The King's (Liverpool Regiment). For most conspicuous gallantry near Rue du Bois, on 16th June 1915. On his own initiative, crawled out repeatedly under a very heavy shell and machine-gun fire, to bring in wounded men who were lying about 100 yards in front of our trenches. He rescued four men, one of whom he dragged back by means of a rifle sling placed round his own neck and the man's body. This man was so severely wounded that unless he had been immediately attended to he must have died. CROSS OF ST GEORGE.: http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/29275/supplements/8509.