Gazette Information: GAZETTE ISSUE 30284, Victoria Cross,: http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/30284/supplements/9533. His Majesty the KING has been graciously pleased to approve of the award of the Victoria Cross to the undermentioned:- No. 6895 Serjeant (Acting Company Serjeant-Major) John Skinner, King's Own Scottish Borderers (Pollokshields, Glasgow). For most conspicuous bravery and good leading. On 18th August 1917 at Wijdendrift, Belgium, whilst his company was attacking, machine gun fire opened on the left bank, delaying the advance. Although Company Serjeant-Major Skinner was wounded in the head, he collected six men, and with great courage and determination worked round the left flank of three blockhouses from which the machine-gun fire was coming, and succeeded in bombing and taking the first blockhouse single-handed; then, leading his six men towards the other two blockhouses, he skilfully cleared them, taking sixty prisoners, three machine-guns, and two trench mortars. The dash and gallantry displayed by this warrant officer enabled the objective to be reached and consolidated. Croix de Guerre,: http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/30431/supplements/13207.
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Gazette Information: GAZETTE ISSUE 30284, Victoria Cross,: http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/30284/supplements/9533. His Majesty the KING has been graciously pleased to approve of the award of the Victoria Cross to the undermentioned:- No. 6895 Serjeant (Acting Company Serjeant-Major) John Skinner, King's Own Scottish Borderers (Pollokshields, Glasgow). For most conspicuous bravery and good leading. On 18th August 1917 at Wijdendrift, Belgium, whilst his company was attacking, machine gun fire opened on the left bank, delaying the advance. Although Company Serjeant-Major Skinner was wounded in the head, he collected six men, and with great courage and determination worked round the left flank of three blockhouses from which the machine-gun fire was coming, and succeeded in bombing and taking the first blockhouse single-handed; then, leading his six men towards the other two blockhouses, he skilfully cleared them, taking sixty prisoners, three machine-guns, and two trench mortars. The dash and gallantry displayed by this warrant officer enabled the objective to be reached and consolidated. Croix de Guerre,: http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/30431/supplements/13207.