Gazette Information: VICTORIA CROSS,: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/36774/supplement/5015. Lieutenant Tasker Watkins (187088), 1/5th Battalion, The Welch Regiment. On 16th August 1944 at Barfour, Normandy, Lieutenant Watkins' company came under murderous machine-gun fire while advancing through corn fields set with booby traps. The only officer left, Lieutenant Watkins led a bayonet charge with his 30 remaining men against 50 enemy infantry, practically wiping them out. Finally, at dusk, separated from the rest of the battalion, he ordered his men to scatter and after he had personally charged and silenced an enemy machine-gun post, he brought them back to safety. His superb leadership not only saved his men, but decisively influenced the course of the battle.
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Gazette Information: VICTORIA CROSS,: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/36774/supplement/5015. Lieutenant Tasker Watkins (187088), 1/5th Battalion, The Welch Regiment. On 16th August 1944 at Barfour, Normandy, Lieutenant Watkins' company came under murderous machine-gun fire while advancing through corn fields set with booby traps. The only officer left, Lieutenant Watkins led a bayonet charge with his 30 remaining men against 50 enemy infantry, practically wiping them out. Finally, at dusk, separated from the rest of the battalion, he ordered his men to scatter and after he had personally charged and silenced an enemy machine-gun post, he brought them back to safety. His superb leadership not only saved his men, but decisively influenced the course of the battle.