Gazette Information: GAZETTE ISSUE 30215, VICTORIA CROSS,: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issues/30215/supplement/7905. His Majesty the KING has been graciously pleased to approve of the award of the Victoria Cross to the undermentioned:- Captain Robert Cuthbert Grieve, Australian Infantry. For most conspicuous bravery. On 7th June 1917 at Messines, Belgium, during an attack on the enemy's position, in the face of heavy artillery and machine-gun fire, and after all his officers had been wounded and his company had suffered very heavy casualties, Captain Grieve located two hostile machine-guns which were holding up his advance. He then, single-handed, under continuous fire from these two machine-guns, succeeded in bombing and killing the two crews, reorganised the remnants of his company and gained his original objective. Captain Grieve, by his utter disregard of danger, and his coolness in mastering a very difficult position, set a splendid example, and when he finally fell wounded, the position had been secured and the few remaining enemy were in full flight.
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Gazette Information: GAZETTE ISSUE 30215, VICTORIA CROSS,: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issues/30215/supplement/7905. His Majesty the KING has been graciously pleased to approve of the award of the Victoria Cross to the undermentioned:- Captain Robert Cuthbert Grieve, Australian Infantry. For most conspicuous bravery. On 7th June 1917 at Messines, Belgium, during an attack on the enemy's position, in the face of heavy artillery and machine-gun fire, and after all his officers had been wounded and his company had suffered very heavy casualties, Captain Grieve located two hostile machine-guns which were holding up his advance. He then, single-handed, under continuous fire from these two machine-guns, succeeded in bombing and killing the two crews, reorganised the remnants of his company and gained his original objective. Captain Grieve, by his utter disregard of danger, and his coolness in mastering a very difficult position, set a splendid example, and when he finally fell wounded, the position had been secured and the few remaining enemy were in full flight.