Gazette Information: VICTORIA CROSS,: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/35729/supplement/4323. Captain (Temporary Major) Patrick Anthony Porteous (73033) Royal Regiment of Artillery (Fleet, Hampshire). On 19th August 1942 at Dieppe, France, Captain Porteous was liaison officer between two detachments whose task was to attack the heavy coast defence guns. During the initial assault Captain Porteous, with the smaller detachment was shot through the hand, but he nevertheless disarmed and killed his assailant, thereby also saving the life of a British sergeant. In the meantime the two officers of the other detachment had been killed and the Troop Sergeant Major seriously wounded, so Captain Porteous, in the face of withering fire, dashed across open ground to take command and led the men in a successful charge against the enemy, when he was severely wounded for the second time. He continued to the final objective, however, but eventually collapsed after the last gun had been destroyed.
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Gazette Information: VICTORIA CROSS,: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/35729/supplement/4323. Captain (Temporary Major) Patrick Anthony Porteous (73033) Royal Regiment of Artillery (Fleet, Hampshire). On 19th August 1942 at Dieppe, France, Captain Porteous was liaison officer between two detachments whose task was to attack the heavy coast defence guns. During the initial assault Captain Porteous, with the smaller detachment was shot through the hand, but he nevertheless disarmed and killed his assailant, thereby also saving the life of a British sergeant. In the meantime the two officers of the other detachment had been killed and the Troop Sergeant Major seriously wounded, so Captain Porteous, in the face of withering fire, dashed across open ground to take command and led the men in a successful charge against the enemy, when he was severely wounded for the second time. He continued to the final objective, however, but eventually collapsed after the last gun had been destroyed.