Gazette Information: GAZETTE ISSUE 29447, VICTORIA CROSS,: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/29447/supplement/945. His Majesty the KING has been graciously pleased to award the Victoria Cross to the undermentioned:- No. 1665 Corporal Alfred Alexander Burt, 1st Battalion, Hertfordshire Regiment, Territorial Force. For most conspicuous bravery at Cuinchy, France on 27th September 1915. His company had lined the front trench preparatory to an attack when a large minenwerfer bomb fell into the trench. Corporal Burt, who well knew the destructive power of this class of bomb, might easily have got under cover behind a traverse, but he immediately went forward, put his foot on the fuse, wrenched it out of the bomb and threw it over the parapet, thus rendering the bomb innocuous. His presence of mind and great pluck saved the lives of others in the traverse.
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Gazette Information: GAZETTE ISSUE 29447, VICTORIA CROSS,: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/29447/supplement/945. His Majesty the KING has been graciously pleased to award the Victoria Cross to the undermentioned:- No. 1665 Corporal Alfred Alexander Burt, 1st Battalion, Hertfordshire Regiment, Territorial Force. For most conspicuous bravery at Cuinchy, France on 27th September 1915. His company had lined the front trench preparatory to an attack when a large minenwerfer bomb fell into the trench. Corporal Burt, who well knew the destructive power of this class of bomb, might easily have got under cover behind a traverse, but he immediately went forward, put his foot on the fuse, wrenched it out of the bomb and threw it over the parapet, thus rendering the bomb innocuous. His presence of mind and great pluck saved the lives of others in the traverse.