Gazette Information: VICTORIA CROSS,: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issues/29328/pages/10153. Second Lieutenant William John Symons, 7th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. On 8th/9th August 1915 at Lone Pine, Gallipoli, Second Lieutenant Symons was in command of a section of newly captured trenches and repelled several counter-attacks with great coolness. An enemy attack on an isolated sap early in the morning resulted in six officers becoming casualties and part of the sap being lost, but Second Lieutenant Symons retook it, shooting two Turks. The sap was then attacked from three sides and this officer managed, in the face of heavy fire, to build a barricade. On the enemy setting fire to the head cover, he extinguished it and rebuilt the barricade. His coolness and determination finally compelled the enemy to withdraw.
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Gazette Information: VICTORIA CROSS,: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issues/29328/pages/10153. Second Lieutenant William John Symons, 7th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. On 8th/9th August 1915 at Lone Pine, Gallipoli, Second Lieutenant Symons was in command of a section of newly captured trenches and repelled several counter-attacks with great coolness. An enemy attack on an isolated sap early in the morning resulted in six officers becoming casualties and part of the sap being lost, but Second Lieutenant Symons retook it, shooting two Turks. The sap was then attacked from three sides and this officer managed, in the face of heavy fire, to build a barricade. On the enemy setting fire to the head cover, he extinguished it and rebuilt the barricade. His coolness and determination finally compelled the enemy to withdraw.