Gazette Information: GAZETTE ISSUE 30400, VICTORIA CROSS,: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/30400/supplement/12330. His Majesty the KING has been graciously pleased to approve of the award of the Victoria Cross to the undermentioned:- No. 267110 Private Arthur Hutt, Royal Warwickshire Regiment (Earlsdon, Coventry). For most conspicuous bravery and initiative in attack on 4th October 1917 at Terrier Farm south-east of Poelcapelle, Belgium, when all the officers and non-commissioned officers of No. 2 platoon having become casualties, Private Hutt took command of and led forward the platoon. He was held up by a strong post on his right, but immediately ran forward alone in front of the platoon and shot the officer and three men in the post, causing between forty and fifty others to surrender. Later realising that he had pushed too far, he withdrew his party. He personally covered the withdrawal by sniping the enemy, killing a number and then carried back a badly wounded man and put him under shelter. Private Hutt then organised and consolidated his position, and learning that some wounded men were lying out and likely to become prisoners if left there, no stretcher-bearers being available, he went out and carried in four wounded men under heavy fire.
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Gazette Information: GAZETTE ISSUE 30400, VICTORIA CROSS,: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/30400/supplement/12330. His Majesty the KING has been graciously pleased to approve of the award of the Victoria Cross to the undermentioned:- No. 267110 Private Arthur Hutt, Royal Warwickshire Regiment (Earlsdon, Coventry). For most conspicuous bravery and initiative in attack on 4th October 1917 at Terrier Farm south-east of Poelcapelle, Belgium, when all the officers and non-commissioned officers of No. 2 platoon having become casualties, Private Hutt took command of and led forward the platoon. He was held up by a strong post on his right, but immediately ran forward alone in front of the platoon and shot the officer and three men in the post, causing between forty and fifty others to surrender. Later realising that he had pushed too far, he withdrew his party. He personally covered the withdrawal by sniping the enemy, killing a number and then carried back a badly wounded man and put him under shelter. Private Hutt then organised and consolidated his position, and learning that some wounded men were lying out and likely to become prisoners if left there, no stretcher-bearers being available, he went out and carried in four wounded men under heavy fire.