Gazette Information: VICTORIA CROSS,: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/35306/supplement/5936. Sergeant Alfred Clive Hulme, 23rd Battalion, 2nd New Zealand Expeditionary Force (The Canterbury Regiment). During the period 20th – 28th May 1941 in Crete Sergeant Hulme displayed outstanding leadership and courage. At Malerne he led a party against the enemy who were attacking with rifles, machine-guns and mortars. At Galatos he drove the enemy away from a school building with hand grenades. At Suda Bay he killed five snipers and at Stylos he wiped out a mortar crew and accounted for three more snipers.
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Gazette Information: VICTORIA CROSS,: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/35306/supplement/5936. Sergeant Alfred Clive Hulme, 23rd Battalion, 2nd New Zealand Expeditionary Force (The Canterbury Regiment). During the period 20th – 28th May 1941 in Crete Sergeant Hulme displayed outstanding leadership and courage. At Malerne he led a party against the enemy who were attacking with rifles, machine-guns and mortars. At Galatos he drove the enemy away from a school building with hand grenades. At Suda Bay he killed five snipers and at Stylos he wiped out a mortar crew and accounted for three more snipers.