Gazette Information: VICTORIA CROSS,: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/37439/supplement/571. No. N.454409 Private Frank John Partridge, 8th Australian Infantry Battalion, Australian Military Forces. On 24th July 1945 at Bougainville, Solomon Islands, Private Partridge's section came under heavy machine-gun fire and suffered severe casualties, including the Bren gunner who was killed. Private Partridge, in spite of having been badly wounded, retrieved the Bren gun from the dead gunner and handed it to another man to provide covering fire while he rushed a bunker and silenced the machine-gun with a grenade. He killed the only living occupant and attacked another bunker, but weakness from loss of blood then compelled him to halt. Later he re-joined the fight and remained in action while the platoon withdrew from an untenable situation.
Fold3_Team · 31 Oct 2023
Gazette Information: VICTORIA CROSS,: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/37439/supplement/571. No. N.454409 Private Frank John Partridge, 8th Australian Infantry Battalion, Australian Military Forces. On 24th July 1945 at Bougainville, Solomon Islands, Private Partridge's section came under heavy machine-gun fire and suffered severe casualties, including the Bren gunner who was killed. Private Partridge, in spite of having been badly wounded, retrieved the Bren gun from the dead gunner and handed it to another man to provide covering fire while he rushed a bunker and silenced the machine-gun with a grenade. He killed the only living occupant and attacked another bunker, but weakness from loss of blood then compelled him to halt. Later he re-joined the fight and remained in action while the platoon withdrew from an untenable situation.