Gazette Information: VICTORIA CROSS,: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/36436/supplement/1361. Sergeant Thomas Currie Derrick, 2/48th Battalion (South Australia), Australian Military Forces. On 24th November 1943 in New Guinea, South-west Pacific, Sergeant Derrick's platoon was ordered to take a slope by storm and then attack a point 150 yards from the township of Sattelberg. After two hours of fruitless attempts under intense fire from the enemy posts, the company was ordered to retire, but Sergeant Derrick, obtaining permission to make one last attempt, advanced alone and with grenades so demoralized the enemy that they fled leaving all their weapons. He then went on to deal with the remaining posts in the area, and was so successful that the battalion was able to capture Sattelberg the following day. DISTINGUISHED CONDUCT MEDAL,: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/35908/supplement/864.
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Gazette Information: VICTORIA CROSS,: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/36436/supplement/1361. Sergeant Thomas Currie Derrick, 2/48th Battalion (South Australia), Australian Military Forces. On 24th November 1943 in New Guinea, South-west Pacific, Sergeant Derrick's platoon was ordered to take a slope by storm and then attack a point 150 yards from the township of Sattelberg. After two hours of fruitless attempts under intense fire from the enemy posts, the company was ordered to retire, but Sergeant Derrick, obtaining permission to make one last attempt, advanced alone and with grenades so demoralized the enemy that they fled leaving all their weapons. He then went on to deal with the remaining posts in the area, and was so successful that the battalion was able to capture Sattelberg the following day. DISTINGUISHED CONDUCT MEDAL,: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/35908/supplement/864.