Gazette Information: VICTORIA CROSS,: http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/37340/supplements/5431. No. NX.20317 Corporal John Bernard Mackey, 2/3rd Pioneer Battalion, Australian Military Forces. On 12th May 1945 at Tarakan Island, North Borneo, Corporal Mackey led his men along a very narrow spur where it was almost impossible to move to a flank. The section came under fire from three well-sited enemy positions, but Corporal Mackey went ahead, charging the first position, wrestling with and killing one of the enemy and he then rushed a heavy machine-gun post killing the crew. He again attacked a third position further along the spur and was killed, but not before he had accounted for two more of the enemy.
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Gazette Information: VICTORIA CROSS,: http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/37340/supplements/5431. No. NX.20317 Corporal John Bernard Mackey, 2/3rd Pioneer Battalion, Australian Military Forces. On 12th May 1945 at Tarakan Island, North Borneo, Corporal Mackey led his men along a very narrow spur where it was almost impossible to move to a flank. The section came under fire from three well-sited enemy positions, but Corporal Mackey went ahead, charging the first position, wrestling with and killing one of the enemy and he then rushed a heavy machine-gun post killing the crew. He again attacked a third position further along the spur and was killed, but not before he had accounted for two more of the enemy.