Gazette Information: VICTORIA CROSS,: http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/29328/pages/10154. Corporal Alexander Stewart Burton, 7th Battalion (Victoria), Australian Imperial Force. On 9th August 1915, at Lone Pine, Gallipoli, the enemy made a determined counter-attack on the centre of the newly captured trench held by a lieutenant, two corporals (one of whom was Corporal Burton) and a few men. The enemy blew in the sand-bag barricade leaving only a foot standing, but the lieutenant and the two corporals repulsed the enemy and rebuilt the barricade. Twice more the enemy blew in the barricade and on each occasion they were repulsed and the barricade rebuilt, but Corporal Burton was killed while most gallantly building up the parapet under a hail of bombs.
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Gazette Information: VICTORIA CROSS,: http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/29328/pages/10154. Corporal Alexander Stewart Burton, 7th Battalion (Victoria), Australian Imperial Force. On 9th August 1915, at Lone Pine, Gallipoli, the enemy made a determined counter-attack on the centre of the newly captured trench held by a lieutenant, two corporals (one of whom was Corporal Burton) and a few men. The enemy blew in the sand-bag barricade leaving only a foot standing, but the lieutenant and the two corporals repulsed the enemy and rebuilt the barricade. Twice more the enemy blew in the barricade and on each occasion they were repulsed and the barricade rebuilt, but Corporal Burton was killed while most gallantly building up the parapet under a hail of bombs.