Gazette Information: VICTORIA CROSS,: http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/37253/supplements/4467. Lieutenant Albert Chowne, 2/2nd Battalion (New South Wales), Australian Military Forces. On 25th March 1945 near Dagua, New Guinea, Lieutenant Chowne attacked an enemy position which was holding up further movement towards Wewak. Seeing that the leading platoon was suffering heavy casualties, Lieutenant Chowne rushed forward and knocked out two light machine-guns with grenades and then, calling on his men to follow him and firing his sub-machine-gun from the hip, he charged the position. Although he was twice wounded in the chest, the impetus of his charge carried him forward 50 yards under intense machine-gun and rifle fire and he accounted for two more of the enemy before he was killed. MILITARY MEDAL,: http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/36403/supplements/1042.
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Gazette Information: VICTORIA CROSS,: http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/37253/supplements/4467. Lieutenant Albert Chowne, 2/2nd Battalion (New South Wales), Australian Military Forces. On 25th March 1945 near Dagua, New Guinea, Lieutenant Chowne attacked an enemy position which was holding up further movement towards Wewak. Seeing that the leading platoon was suffering heavy casualties, Lieutenant Chowne rushed forward and knocked out two light machine-guns with grenades and then, calling on his men to follow him and firing his sub-machine-gun from the hip, he charged the position. Although he was twice wounded in the chest, the impetus of his charge carried him forward 50 yards under intense machine-gun and rifle fire and he accounted for two more of the enemy before he was killed. MILITARY MEDAL,: http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/36403/supplements/1042.