Gazette Information: VICTORIA CROSS,: http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/35600/supplements/2699. Temporary Lieutenant-Colonel Geoffrey Charles Tasker Keyes (71081), Royal Scots Greys, Royal Armoured Corps (11th Scottish Commando). On 17th/18th November 1941 at Beda Littoria, Libya, Lieutenant-Colonel Keyes, commanding a detachment of a force which had landed 250 miles behind enemy lines, led his men, without guides, in dangerous and precipitous country to attack the house which was believed to be General Rommel's headquarters. When they reached their objective, Colonel Keyes took only one officer and one Non-Commissioned Officer with him and having evaded the guards and dealt with the sentry, he dashed into the first room he encountered and shot the occupants. He then rushed into the second room where the occupants were the first to fire and Colonel Keyes was mortally wounded. MILITARY CROSS,: http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/35316/supplements/6086.
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Gazette Information: VICTORIA CROSS,: http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/35600/supplements/2699. Temporary Lieutenant-Colonel Geoffrey Charles Tasker Keyes (71081), Royal Scots Greys, Royal Armoured Corps (11th Scottish Commando). On 17th/18th November 1941 at Beda Littoria, Libya, Lieutenant-Colonel Keyes, commanding a detachment of a force which had landed 250 miles behind enemy lines, led his men, without guides, in dangerous and precipitous country to attack the house which was believed to be General Rommel's headquarters. When they reached their objective, Colonel Keyes took only one officer and one Non-Commissioned Officer with him and having evaded the guards and dealt with the sentry, he dashed into the first room he encountered and shot the occupants. He then rushed into the second room where the occupants were the first to fire and Colonel Keyes was mortally wounded. MILITARY CROSS,: http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/35316/supplements/6086.