Gazette Information: GAZETTE ISSUE 30284, Victoria Cross,: http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/30284/supplements/9532. His Majesty the KING has been graciously pleased to approve of the award of the Victoria Cross to the undermentioned:- No. 13531 Serjeant (acting Company Quartermaster-Serjeant) William Henry Grimbaldeston, King's Own Scottish Borderers. (Blackburn). For most conspicuous bravery in attack. On 16 August 1917 at Wijdendrift,Belgium, noticing that the unit on his left was held up by enemy machine-gun fire from a blockhouse, though wounded, he collected a small party to fire rifle grenades on this blockhouse. He then got a volunteer to assist him with rifle fire. In spite of very heavy fire from the blockhouse. He pushed on towards it, and made for the entrance, from which he threatened with a hand grenade the machine gun teams inside the blockhouse. These he forced to surrender one after another. The extraordinary courage and boldness of Company Quartermaster-Serjeant Grimbaldeston resulted in his capturing thirty-six prisoners, six machine-guns and one trench mortar, and enabled the whole line to continue its advance. CROIX DE GUERRE,: http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/30431/supplements/13207. GAZETTE ISSUE 30431, CROIX DE GUERRE, The President of the French Republic has presented the Decoration of Croix de Guerre for distinguished service rendered during the course of the campaign. His Majesty the King has given unrestricted permission to wear the Decoration in question.
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Gazette Information: GAZETTE ISSUE 30284, Victoria Cross,: http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/30284/supplements/9532. His Majesty the KING has been graciously pleased to approve of the award of the Victoria Cross to the undermentioned:- No. 13531 Serjeant (acting Company Quartermaster-Serjeant) William Henry Grimbaldeston, King's Own Scottish Borderers. (Blackburn). For most conspicuous bravery in attack. On 16 August 1917 at Wijdendrift,Belgium, noticing that the unit on his left was held up by enemy machine-gun fire from a blockhouse, though wounded, he collected a small party to fire rifle grenades on this blockhouse. He then got a volunteer to assist him with rifle fire. In spite of very heavy fire from the blockhouse. He pushed on towards it, and made for the entrance, from which he threatened with a hand grenade the machine gun teams inside the blockhouse. These he forced to surrender one after another. The extraordinary courage and boldness of Company Quartermaster-Serjeant Grimbaldeston resulted in his capturing thirty-six prisoners, six machine-guns and one trench mortar, and enabled the whole line to continue its advance. CROIX DE GUERRE,: http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/30431/supplements/13207. GAZETTE ISSUE 30431, CROIX DE GUERRE, The President of the French Republic has presented the Decoration of Croix de Guerre for distinguished service rendered during the course of the campaign. His Majesty the King has given unrestricted permission to wear the Decoration in question.