Gazette Information: VICTORIA CROSS,: http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/35893/supplements/695. No. VX 19139 Private Bruce Steel Kingsbury, 2/14th Battalion (Victoria), Australian Military Forces. On 29th August 1942 in Isurava, Papua New Guinea, when the enemy had broken through the battalion's right flank, creating serious threats to the rest of the battalion and to its headquarters, Private Kingsbury volunteered to join a platoon which had been ordered to counter-attack. He rushed forward, firing the Bren gun from his hip and succeeded in clearing a path through the enemy and inflicting an extremely large number of casualties. He was then seen to fall, shot dead by a sniper's bullet. His superb courage made possible the recapture of a position which saved Battalion Headquarters.
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Gazette Information: VICTORIA CROSS,: http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/35893/supplements/695. No. VX 19139 Private Bruce Steel Kingsbury, 2/14th Battalion (Victoria), Australian Military Forces. On 29th August 1942 in Isurava, Papua New Guinea, when the enemy had broken through the battalion's right flank, creating serious threats to the rest of the battalion and to its headquarters, Private Kingsbury volunteered to join a platoon which had been ordered to counter-attack. He rushed forward, firing the Bren gun from his hip and succeeded in clearing a path through the enemy and inflicting an extremely large number of casualties. He was then seen to fall, shot dead by a sniper's bullet. His superb courage made possible the recapture of a position which saved Battalion Headquarters.