Gazette Information: VICTORIA CROSS,: http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/36807/supplements/5375. Lance-Sergeant John Daniel Baskeyfield, The South Staffordshire Regiment, 1st Airborne Division. On 20th September 1944 at Arnhem, Holland, Lance-Sergeant Baskeyfield was in charge of a 6-pounder anti-tank gun and in the course of the engagement when two Tiger tanks and at least one self-propelling gun were destroyed, the lance-sergeant was wounded and all his crew became casualties. Nevertheless he continued to man his gun quite alone, keeping the enemy at bay, until it was put out of action, when he crawled to another 6-pounder and proceeded to man that single-handed. He fired two shots at a self-propelling gun, one of which was a direct hit, and was preparing to fire a third when he was killed.
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Gazette Information: VICTORIA CROSS,: http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/36807/supplements/5375. Lance-Sergeant John Daniel Baskeyfield, The South Staffordshire Regiment, 1st Airborne Division. On 20th September 1944 at Arnhem, Holland, Lance-Sergeant Baskeyfield was in charge of a 6-pounder anti-tank gun and in the course of the engagement when two Tiger tanks and at least one self-propelling gun were destroyed, the lance-sergeant was wounded and all his crew became casualties. Nevertheless he continued to man his gun quite alone, keeping the enemy at bay, until it was put out of action, when he crawled to another 6-pounder and proceeded to man that single-handed. He fired two shots at a self-propelling gun, one of which was a direct hit, and was preparing to fire a third when he was killed.