Gazette Information: VICTORIA CROSS,: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/37134/supplement/3171. Lieutenant-Colonel Augustus Charles Newman (33927), The Essex Regiment (attached Commandos). On 27th March 1942 in the attack on St Nazaire, France, Lieutenant-Colonel Newman was in charge of the military forces and he was one of the first ashore, leading his men and directing operations quite regardless of his own safety. Under his inspiring leadership the troops fought magnificently and held vastly superior numbers of the enemy at bay until the demolition parties had done their work. The colonel then attempted to fight through into open country and not until all the ammunition was spent were he and his men overwhelmed and taken prisoner. MENTIONED IN DESPATCHES,: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/37396/supplement/6189.
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Gazette Information: VICTORIA CROSS,: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/37134/supplement/3171. Lieutenant-Colonel Augustus Charles Newman (33927), The Essex Regiment (attached Commandos). On 27th March 1942 in the attack on St Nazaire, France, Lieutenant-Colonel Newman was in charge of the military forces and he was one of the first ashore, leading his men and directing operations quite regardless of his own safety. Under his inspiring leadership the troops fought magnificently and held vastly superior numbers of the enemy at bay until the demolition parties had done their work. The colonel then attempted to fight through into open country and not until all the ammunition was spent were he and his men overwhelmed and taken prisoner. MENTIONED IN DESPATCHES,: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/37396/supplement/6189.