Gazette Information: VICTORIA CROSS,: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/29015/pages/10920. Serjeant John Hogan, 2nd Battalion, The Manchester Regiment. On 29th October 1914 near Festubert, France, after their trench had been taken by the enemy and two attempts to recapture it had failed, Serjeant Hogan went with a second lieutenant and a party of 10 volunteers to recover it themselves. They took the Germans by surprise with a sudden bayonet attack and then, working from traverse to traverse, they gradually succeeded in regaining possession, killing eight of the enemy, wounding two and taking 16 prisoners.
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Gazette Information: VICTORIA CROSS,: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/29015/pages/10920. Serjeant John Hogan, 2nd Battalion, The Manchester Regiment. On 29th October 1914 near Festubert, France, after their trench had been taken by the enemy and two attempts to recapture it had failed, Serjeant Hogan went with a second lieutenant and a party of 10 volunteers to recover it themselves. They took the Germans by surprise with a sudden bayonet attack and then, working from traverse to traverse, they gradually succeeded in regaining possession, killing eight of the enemy, wounding two and taking 16 prisoners.